| ‘Situational Awareness’ is the skill of being able to identify, process, and comprehend information of what is going on around you and your surroundings at a given time, having self and environmental awareness, acting based off the gathered information and using the given scenario to evaluate and plan for future events. This valuable skill set can help decrease incidents of violence and errors in the workplace. It can also help with personal or community safety and well-being. Situational Awareness can help with planning for dangers and disasters and increase communication and teamwork in a business. There are numerous benefits. ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK32848/ ) |
Advanced knowledge of Situational Awareness can help employees of any business to become more aware, facilitate communication and teamwork and help prevent workplace incidents of violence or other dangerous or adverse events. SA can also help individuals stay safe in any setting and keep their loved ones and communities safer by recognizing threat BEFORE it occurs.
The S.A.F.E. Program (Situational Awareness for Employees) was created by retired US Combat Marine Yousef Badou, who specializes in behavior analysis and threat detection.
The majority of workplace trainings today include action plans of what to do once an incident already occurs. Even with added security guards and a plan of action in place in case of an incident of (example activeshooter)… the intervention is occurring once the incident has already occurred. Why wait?
I offer training for employees to be PREPARED ahead of time and help formulate a plan for PREVENTION in your workplace. I often work with other Certified Instructors who hold numerous practical life experiences in set fields of law enforcement, education, military, government, private sector, fire dept., public service and many more.
This unique program along with practical knowledgebase from real-life experiences can help your business stay ahead of what is going on in the world. You will gain experience in the fields of human behavior, kinesiology, biology, physiology, environmental awareness/ atmospherics, proximity, threat detection, and much more.
The skills learned can help detect a violent person in a crowded public space, help keep your events safer, help notice workplace conflicts between staff BEFORE they escalate, spotting a person in distress, notice mental health crisis ahead of time, and being able to use biological cues to help understand the nonverbal language of humans.
