About the ability to know what's going on around you and anticipate what might happen next. You can't control when the moment of crisis arises, but you can control how prepared you are when it's the case. For this, situational awareness is key. In football we often hear the expression 'Head up … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness
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Situational Awareness. What Are Your Filters?
We see the world and situations through the many biases (filters) developed through years of the way the world has been framed at us. In safety, the training, curriculum, discourse, language and semiosis is framed through the filter and lens of objects. Even psychosocial harm is called a ’hazard’. … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness. What Are Your Filters?
Situational Awareness as Consciousness of the Unconscious
Situational awareness is in some ways about ‘reading’ and ‘sensing’ the unknown but how can that make sense? Isn’t that a paradox? Yes, it is but in SPoR many things are held in paradoxical tension. Such is life. Situational awareness is about a ‘sixth sense’ of knowing well beyond any thinking … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness as Consciousness of the Unconscious
Situational Awareness and Human Error
Situational Awareness and Human Error An interesting article by Sidney Dekker on the Safety Differently Blog: Is It 1947 Yet? Neither Lieutenant Nathan Poloski’s body, nor his F/A-18 Hornet were ever found in waters almost three miles deep. All that was located in the Western Pacific after his … [Read more...] about Situational Awareness and Human Error
Organisational Situational Awareness
Organisational Situational Awareness By Goran Prvulovic, MOccHlth&Saf The concept of situational awareness (SA) is not a new one. It is often talked about in management circles and is extensively covered in OHS literature, especially in relation to an individual’s ability to understand the … [Read more...] about Organisational Situational Awareness