Sensemaking & In-The-Moment Decision Making
Seven School Safety Exercise Objectives That Actually Help Teachers, Police, Fire, and EMS | SDP196
School safety exercises often involve #school staff, #students and agencies (police/fire/EMS), but lack measurable learning objectives. What did exercise coordinators specifically measure during and following the exercise? Does everyone need to participate in the safety exercise, or should some staff and students be assigned to different roles, such as observers? Is it OK to include…
Read MoreDecision Making Up in the Air | Pilot Graham Wilson | The DECIDE model | SDP186
Graham Wilson is a freelance flight instructor in Windsor, Canada. He produces aviation-themed content for his ‘Superpilotish’ YouTube channel and website superpilotish.com. Graham has worked as a Chief Flight Instructor, Chief Pilot, Operations Manager and was formerly an accredited Transport Canada Pilot Examiner. He has worked various jobs in manufacturing, the service sector and was…
Read MoreLost Person Behavior Facts | 4 Ways to Make it Easier to Be Found | SDP184
Between 2004 and 2014, in the US National Parks alone, there were 46,609 individuals who became lost and required a search and rescue campaign, which cost about $51.4 million in total (Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2018 NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics. Tech. Rep., National Crime Information Center). What are characteristics of lost persons…
Read MoreSmoky Mountains Wildfire | The Collapse of Physical Time | The Velocity of Information | SDP180
[Podcast] It is legally recognized that time is cleanly divided into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. But in certain chaos conditions, the construct of time might distort and collapse into what is known as a flow state. All that matters is the moment. And while we convince ourselves that we will observe…
Read MoreDeep Fakes and False Takes | The Velocity of Information | David P. Perrodin | SDP176
[Podcast] In June, 2019, U.S. lawmakers held their first hearing devoted primarily to the threat of artificially generated imagery. Then in October, 2019, California banned political deep fakes during election season. But, such actions have raised questions. What might be consequences looming at the intersection of deep fakes and public policy? DIRECT LINK to MP3…
Read MoreLife Pivot After Traumatic Brain Injury | Behind The Media Curtain | Guest Sassed1 2Many | SDP161
[Podcast] Sassed1 2 Many works in the IT Field as a mainframe technician. He’s an avid shooter, rides motorcycles, and flies radio-controlled airplanes. And all of that was almost ripped away when early on life’s journey he was spun and strewn with obstacles that forced him to literally rethink everything. In this episode, Sassed discusses…
Read MoreFailure to Regress to the Mean | Why Things Aren’t Returning to Normal | SAFETY DOC LIVESTREAM 10-29-2020
[Podcast] Doc returns from sabbatical for this Master Class and delivers updated interpretations of Finite Voltage, Crowd-In Behavior, and his newest concept of “Failure to Regress to the Mean” to describe the current condition of society. Read the full blog post for episode #149 at safetyphd.com DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP149-AUDIO TACTICAL WISDOM…
Read MoreSAFETY DOC LIVESTREAM #148 | Matthew Hoover | Four Waves of Chaos | Where is All the Ammunition?
[Podcast] What will happen when truck drivers refuse to deliver to powder-keg big cities after the Presidential election? Are you aware that truck drivers are currently paid exorbitant bonuses to take on the risk to bring supplies to America’s riot-smashed metropolitans including Seattle and Portland? Did you know that it is remarkably easy to disable…
Read MoreSurvival Expert Morgan Rogue: Subtle Signs of Chaos | SAFETY DOC LIVESTREAM #146
[Podcast] Morgan Rogue’s mantra is to conquer tomorrow by preparing today! She lives on 40 acres of land in the southern United States with her husband, two daughters and two dogs. She is the owner and founder of Rogue Preparedness, a website dedicated to emergency preparedness and survival skills. Morgan has published extensively in crisis…
Read MoreThe Most Dangerous Job in the World: Alaskan Crab Boater Robert Travis | SAFETY DOC PODCAST Livestream 8-3-2020
[Podcast] Commercial fishing has long topped the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ list of jobs with the most fatalities — and crabbing in the Alaskan waters is by far the most lethal form of fishing. Guest Robert Travis shares his experiences as a greenhorn deckhand straight out of Dutch Harbor and re-lives harrowing tales of surviving…
Read More