Situational awareness is a critical capability in the battlefield. Tools and technologies, including real-time sensors, video displays, mission computers, and video-distribution systems, are evolving ...

Amy Irwin received funding from the ESRC for a PhD studentship (student: Oliver Hamlet) which will investigate non-technical skills in helicopter flight. Oliver Hamlet receives funding from the ESRC ...

The term "situational awareness" means knowing where you are, where you are supposed to be, and whether anyone or anything around you poses a threat. The term is frequently used in aviation and the ...

Editor’s note: This is the 22 nd article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SecurityInfoWatch.com contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology ...

Situational awareness has been around as a concept for a long time, especially within those industries like petrochemicals, where crisis avoidance means things don’t blow up and lives are not lost.

One thing that’s stood out to me and that I’ve come to value about our industry is the emphasis placed on building a culture of safety. Recently, I was thinking about one preventative safety tactic in ...

At a founding conference on situation awareness in the mid-1990s, safety veteran Charles Billings wondered aloud whether the use of “situation awareness” was necessary to explain what causes people to ...

One of the most common reasons injuries happen in the workplace is because employees lose sight of situational awareness, meaning not knowing what is around them and if any hazards or potential ...

Editor’s note: This is the 24 th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SIW contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology progress. There are ...