What is situational awareness?

Situational awareness is being aware of what is happening around you in terms of where you are, where you are supposed to be, and whether anyone or anything around you is a threat to your safety.

Our knowledge, experience and education enable us to understand what is going on around us and helps us to determine if it is safe. This means that everyone’s situational awareness is potentially different. We use our situational awareness to make daily decisions.

Our situational awareness is only as accurate as our own perception or reading of the situation, so what we think is happening may not accurately reflect reality. How we read a situation can be influenced by many things such as the type of information we have been given, our own experience and general distractions.

Why should you improve it?

It is important that you know how many problems you face and how serious they could be. The temporary loss or lack of situational awareness is a causal factor in every day life.

Maybe there is so much ‘going on’ in your environment or you become so absorbed in your own thoughts, mobile phones or conversation, that you fail to spot those things that could pose a threat to your safety.

Situation Awareness courses are always tailored to meet customers exact requirements. At the end of the course, certificates of attendance are issued for inclusion in your staff training files.