Mags Kelly MInSTR
RES‑Q360™
Email mags@res-q360.com, www.res-q360.com
https://doi.org/10.61618/XUOM7451
Search & Rescue (SAR) has evolved through advances in technology, coordination and doctrine, alongside more formal approaches to search planning and assurance. Within that progress, an ongoing discussion is how assurance practice should balance evidence of process completion and analytic outputs with the quality of the human judgements that generate, interpret and adapt them. This letter therefore invites sector-wide reflection on a question: to what extent do search assurance frameworks account for human decision-making under uncertainty, particularly cognitive load, bias and the maintenance of shared situational awareness across distributed teams?