Situational Awareness: 01. What Is Situational Awareness?
Learning objectives
- Gain an understanding of situational awareness at work. Learn about the best practices for staying aware of your surroundings and how to handle safety hazards before and after they appear.
Course overview
When you're working with potentially dangerous equipment or in a hazardous environment, it's crucial that you stay aware of your surroundings. If you're not paying attention, you or someone else could end up in a dangerous situation, leading to accidents or injuries. Situational awareness is a skill that allows us to be persistently aware of our surroundings, so we can avoid accidents and injuries and make sure we get the job done right. In this course, we'll discuss the basics of situational awareness and its three main components. We'll also go over some common barriers that can interfere with situational awareness.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
