Flawed situational awareness is a leading contributing factor to first responder near-miss and casualty events. Yet, sadly, most first responders know very little about situational awareness – what it is, how to develop it, what erodes it and how to regain it once it has been eroded.

This book series is a collection of articles from the highly acclaimed SAMatters.com blog. Each contribution discusses the challenges first responders face while trying to develop and maintain situational awareness while making decisions in high-risk, high consequence, time compressed, rapidly changing environments, including:

Volume 1 topics

• Fatigue
• Multitasking
• Freelancing
• Emotions
• Discipline
• Assertiveness
• Risk versus reward
• Being defensive
• Memory
• Expectations
• SOPs
• Meta awareness
• Staffing levels
• Accountability
• Debriefings
• And more…

Volume 2 Topics

• Stress
• Communications
• Vigilance
• Tunnel Vision
• Auditory Exclusion
• Information Overload
• Time Distortion
• Bad Habits
• Technology
• Peer Pressure
• Size-up
• Noise
• Mindset
• Freelancing
• Accountability
• And more…

Volume 3 Topics

• Training
• Radio Discipline
• Complacency
• Communications
• Expectations
• Imagination
• Locus of Control
• Maydays
• Working Command
• Dispatchers
• Mindfulness
• Technology
• Administrative Chiefs
• Aggressiveness
• Simulations
• And more…