Situational Awareness is Everyday Awareness
Situational Awareness is not a sometimes thing - It’s a everyday thing.
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If it is accepted that there is a level of risk in our daily lives, both at work and beyond. Then it has to be true that having that engaged and appropriate level of situational awareness needs to be an everyday thing.
For all of us, at a given time, place and circumstance “bad stuff” crosses our path. This could be at work, on the way to work or outside of work. If we want to take responsibility for our personal safety and security then its incumbent on us to have that right level of situational awareness, everyday - Its why situational awareness is everyday awareness.
Situational Awareness - It’s an everyday thing
In our situational awareness workshops we run an interactive exercise of getting participants to write down all of the risk they consider in their daily lives. Before long, the wall space is full of post it notes. Risk which is real in peoples lives.
We seperate the “risk” into two sections, at work and beyond. It’s a reality check for everyone to see. It clearly shows that the risk is both real and different for different people.
A 23 year old women travelling on public transport and walking home at dusk has different risks which are real in her world and are different to those of a 45 year old male who drives to and from work and parks in the internal company car park.
Seeing what people are concerned about in their work and daily lives is a reality check on what is real. It is also an opportunity to put in place good life skills, which puts that risk into perspective and helps people deal with it.
And we deal with it with by having that engaged and appropriate level of situational awareness.
Therefore, that situational awareness is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You can’t have an engaged sense of situational awareness once in a while, you don't square away your safety & security once in a while, you do it all of the time. An engaged and appropriate level of situational awareness is a habit. It’s why you want to develop it as a life skill - it’s an all the time thing.
Situational Awareness - Engaged and Appropriate
A key point in getting people to develop their situational awareness, is to reinforce pulling on it at an engaged and appropriate level.
Yes, of course there is risk in our lives, and it is different, for different people in different vacations, in different environments. That is absolutely true. But risk is measured by likelihood and consequence and that needs to be kept in perspective.
Life is for living. And having an engaged and appropriate level of situational awareness is an enabler for that. Live life, travel, work, do what drives you - and do all of that with that engaged and appropriate level of situational awareness. That’s the simplicity of the message.
Situational Awareness - It’s a life skill
We’ve been facilitating, speaking, training around situational awareness for 10 years, both in NZ and abroad. It’s the client feedback that lifts us and the why, is because it sits at the heart of our vision “a safer world one client at a time”.
“The Speaker talking about Risk, in particular the Situational Awareness was fantastic. I had never put it all together and been enlightened as to how it can all come together in all different situations and in the different environments”
-Air New Zealand Health & Safety Rep 2018
“The content is brilliant, such wonderful life skills and advice for everyone to incorporate into their everyday lives. Our team found the material so benecial are still discussing it regularly
“Wow, the credibility of the course leaders can’t be denied. The day was empowering and invigorating and denitely made me feel condent that I could handle myself in an adverse situation. I came away from the day feeling very passionate about what Q has to offer and I will be sharing my newfound knowledge with those around me.
-Joanne ASB
QRisk Situational Awareness Training
Situational Awareness Training is a QRisk foundation module. It is central to many of our courses and keynote presentations. It underpins our strong belief and power statement that “Situational Awareness is the greatest skill you can acquire for your personal safety and security.”
If you are one of those caring people leaders, or health & safety champions that aligns to the thinking in this article then lets chat.
We can discuss the uniqueness of your organisation, your environment, and your people and look to an off the shelf situational awareness training session, or by design we can align it to your world.
The QRisk Situational Awareness Training online or onsite - both provide real training outcomes but more importantly your people will pick up real life skills, that when adopted beyond the training they will be better, safer and more resilient for it.
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