SAM 106 | Sensory conflict can impact situational awareness

The process by which situational awareness is formed begins withusing your five senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting andsmelling) to gather information from your environment. That mayarguably be the easiest part of the situational awarenessdevelopmental process so long as you are “paying attention” to yourenvironment. Once the senses gather information, it converts itinto an electrical code that crackles its way down neural pathwaysto various destinations.At some point, the inputs from the senses must be combined,compared and contrasted to help achieve a coherent understanding ofwhat is happening. This “understanding” is the second step alongthe way to developing situational awareness. But it’s not alwayseasy to understand the meaning of information, especially whenthere is conflict among the inputs. Our sponsor:Midwest FireMidwestFire.com Intro musicSafety Dance (1982)Men Without HatsGMC - Virgin Records Situational Awareness Matters! websitewww.SAMatters.com Firefighter Near Miss Reporting Systemhttp://www.firefighternearmiss.com/ Contact Rich [email protected]