Situational Awareness

Improving safety is the goal of every smart worker. This book will help your workers and supervisors improve worksite safety by understanding how to develop and maintain strong situational awareness and how to improve high-risk, high-consequence decision making.

Topics covered include:

• What is situational awareness and why does it matter?
• Situational Awareness Barriers
• Sensory Conflict: When the puzzle pieces don’t fit
• Mind Drift: Wandering out of awareness
• Distractions & Interruptions: Unplanned disruptions derail thinking
• Pre-arrival lens: You see what you want to see
• Urgency: Stressing the brain
• Overconfidence: A dangerous minefield
• Complacency: Letting your guard down
• Short-term memory overload: Respect your limitations
• Time distortion: When your mental clock breaks
• Auditory exclusion: You’re going deaf!
• Task fixation: The small-picture view
• Confabulation: Your brain is lying to you
• Automaticity: Acting without thinking
• Multitasking: Doing a lot of things poorly all at the same time
• Case studies
• List of Situational Awareness Barriers