Situation Awareness
Situation Awareness and
Decision Making in a Warning
Environment
Advanced Warning Operations Course
IC Core 2
Lesson 3: Team SA
Warning Decision Training Branch
Lesson 3 will focus on the Situation Awareness (SA) of teams. The “teams” in this lesson are not limited to the forecast office staff. For example, another team would be the entire group comprised by the forecast office, the media, and emergency managers, who are all part of the warning process.
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Lesson 3: Team SA
Learning Objective:
• Identify factors that can impact getting and maintaining team SA.
“When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout”
John Helpling
The Learning Objective for Lesson 3 applies to factors that affect getting and maintaining team SA. The Learning Objectives will be tested when you take the on-line exam for IC Core 2.
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Lesson 3: Team SA
Performance Objectives
1. Using specific data examples, identify the three levels of SA and how they are contributing to your warning decisions, while working:
a) WES simulations, and
b) Warning events.
2. As part of post-event analysis, determine the role that SA (good or bad) at the three levels played in the warning decisions that were made.
The Performance Objectives for Lesson 3 apply during this course as well as after completion. Though they are not tested formally, questions related to these Performance Objectives will be posed during the course simulations.
Developing SA in the “domain” of the warning environment is a skill that evolves over time and is an important asset in making sound warning decisions. 3
Apollo 13 and Team SA
Hmm…
???
Uh-oh
Yes!!
“Danger
Will Robinson!”
The Apollo 13 mission is an interesting example of a shift in team SA. This large team of controllers had to build their SA sufficiently to shift the goal from mission completion to getting the astronauts back alive. Imagine the reluctance to abandon the mission, but
Decision Making in a Warning
Environment
Advanced Warning Operations Course
IC Core 2
Lesson 3: Team SA
Warning Decision Training Branch
Lesson 3 will focus on the Situation Awareness (SA) of teams. The “teams” in this lesson are not limited to the forecast office staff. For example, another team would be the entire group comprised by the forecast office, the media, and emergency managers, who are all part of the warning process.
1
Lesson 3: Team SA
Learning Objective:
• Identify factors that can impact getting and maintaining team SA.
“When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout”
John Helpling
The Learning Objective for Lesson 3 applies to factors that affect getting and maintaining team SA. The Learning Objectives will be tested when you take the on-line exam for IC Core 2.
2
Lesson 3: Team SA
Performance Objectives
1. Using specific data examples, identify the three levels of SA and how they are contributing to your warning decisions, while working:
a) WES simulations, and
b) Warning events.
2. As part of post-event analysis, determine the role that SA (good or bad) at the three levels played in the warning decisions that were made.
The Performance Objectives for Lesson 3 apply during this course as well as after completion. Though they are not tested formally, questions related to these Performance Objectives will be posed during the course simulations.
Developing SA in the “domain” of the warning environment is a skill that evolves over time and is an important asset in making sound warning decisions. 3
Apollo 13 and Team SA
Hmm…
???
Uh-oh
Yes!!
“Danger
Will Robinson!”
The Apollo 13 mission is an interesting example of a shift in team SA. This large team of controllers had to build their SA sufficiently to shift the goal from mission completion to getting the astronauts back alive. Imagine the reluctance to abandon the mission, but