Situational awareness : for emergency response / Richard B. Gasaway, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Public Safety Laboratory.

Includes index.

Foreword -- Understanding decision making and situational awareness -- Introduction -- Traditional decision-making process -- Recognition-primed decision-making process -- Understanding the barriers that challenge commander situational awareness -- Situational awareness -- Situational awareness research -- Staffing barriers -- Communications barriers -- Physical and mental stress barriers -- Workload management barriers -- Human-factor barriers -- Attention-management barriers -- Command-support barriers -- Data and information management barriers -- Mission and goal barriers -- Mental model barriers -- Command location barriers -- Teamwork barriers -- First responder situational awareness lessons & best practices -- Lessons for first responders -- Fireground command best practices -- Twenty-five point command health check-up -- Epilogue -- Frequently asked situational awareness questions -- Index.