HAZMAT Training Ltd / Limited is committed to providing the very best training and development programmes for emergency responders, trainers and planners.

We are doing this by:
  • Using state of the art blended learning techniques which have a firm basis in phycological/educational research
  • Ensuring that all course content is firmly based on national standards and FRS national operational guidance
  • Working closely with the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE), UKFRS NOGP, NFPA and 'Skills for justice -fire and rescue'
  • Employing dynamic trainers with a passion and track record in delivering top class HAZMAT courses.

THE 12 BRAIN RULES
  • SURVIVAL: The human brain evolved, too.
  • EXERCISE: Exercise boosts brain power.
  • SLEEP: Sleep well, think well.
  • STRESS: Stressed brains don't learn the same way.
  • WIRING: Every brain is wired differently.
  • ATTENTION: We don't pay attention to boring things.
  • MEMORY: Repeat to remember.
  • SENSORY INTEGRATION: Stimulate more of the senses.
  • VISION: Vision trumps all other senses.
  • MUSIC: Study or listen to boost cognition.
  • GENDER: Male and female brains are different.
  • EXPLORATION: We are powerful and natural explorers.
SOURCE:  'Brain rules' Dr John Medina
http://www.brainrules.net

Daniel Kahneman "Thinking, fast and slow"
Kahneman describes two different ways the brain forms thoughts:
  • SYSTEM 1: Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious. Examples (in order of complexity) of things system 1 can do:
  • SYSTEM 2: Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious. Examples of things system 2 can do
Kahneman covers a number of experiments which purport to highlight the differences between these two thought systems and how they arrive at different results even given the same inputs. Terms and concepts include coherence, attention, laziness, association, jumping to conclusions, and how one forms judgments. The System 1 vs. System 2 debate dives into the reasoning or lack thereof for human decision making which is vital when considering decision making at emergency hazmat incidents.
SOURCE:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

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Bob Hark produced this guidance for the UK Govt. which was published by TSO in November 2012.