Situation Awareness 360
What you'll learn
- Situational Awareness skills. Sharpen your detection abilities to learn to spot evasive irregularities and anomalies.
- Learn how to observe your environment 360 degrees around you, using your natural born senses.
- You will learn how to identify dangers, hazards and anomalies on the fly in real time, when others will miss them.
- These empowering techniques will up-skill you to perform enhanced Continuous Risk Assessments and -Monitoring, so much needed for safe working conditions.
- Safely performing work, going about life, requires intentional, continuous risk monitoring. Here, you will learn how.
Requirements
- Your work / activities require you to do regular Risk Assessments
- You have an important need to really understand what it actually means when you conduct a Continuous Risk Assessment and you require more specialized skills and techniques to mitigate dangers and hazards in your workplace, and elsewhere before they manifest
- Internet access and smart phone, laptop or PC
- Recording device and/or Pen and paper for field notes
- Be able to move around (visit different areas for the practical exercises)
- An inquisitive nature to discover, question and know hidden things
- Prior knowledge/experience with types of Risk Assessments will be an advantage, particularly Continuous Risk Assessments and Monitoring
Description
With Situation Awareness 360, you will learn how to tune in to your environment, and by using all your 5 senses, detect conditions, hazards, dangers, opportunities, etc. that could impact on your wellbeing, personal safety, your work safety and everyday life. Theory explains this powerful mind set combined with easy practical exercises comprised of Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Once you have mastered this course, you will be able to apply these principles to your own unique life / work environment.
The secret to successfully applying this powerful mindset with positive outcomes in any environment, demands without a doubt that you know your environment very well within which you want to practice this skill. This valuable skill is taught using practical scenarios where you will start with a basic exercise and moving on to more advanced exercises. Examples and field exercises lay the foundation for your training and will help you to practice what you learn so that you can eventually venture out to self-discover more about your own specific area(s) / fields of interest and continue practicing this skill to increase your proficiency levels. These practical exercises take the place of my real world practical training sessions and should be effective if used with dedication and intent.
What you will learn from this course, is a special mindset that applies to any work environment. The approach is generic in concept, for you to adapt to suit your environment of choice. Many Government, Military, Security Units, Police, etc. are trained to professional levels using this concept, adapted for their specific field of importance.
Who this course is for:
- People working and living in all environments where Continuous Safety is an important consideration
- Occupational Health and Safety Professionals for whom expert observation skills are extremely important
- Work Supervisors who are responsible for Plant- and Workers' Health and Safety
- Regulatory and Safety Course Instructors who can incorporate this course into their existing courses
- Accident and Incident Investigators and students
- Security companies and their employees
- People whose professions require investigative skills
- SHE Reps
- Vehicle Driving Instructors
- Tutors who coach children and adults regarding everyday safety at home and school, for example Parents, Employers, Coaches
- All Employers who need to recruit, train, educate and ensure Maintenance and Operations staff are professionally and effectively equipped to understand and deal with unexpected dangers and hazards in the workplace.
- General Workers for whom expert observation skills are extremely important
Instructor
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I lecture on High Voltage - Low Voltage Regulations, Mechanical Regulations, Risk Assessment, Root Cause Analysis, Situation Awareness Training in the Manufacturing, Industrial and Commercial industries.
Historically, I have been training people (Kids and Adults alike) since I have been 14 years old, practicing martial arts as a teenager with my own Dojo, progressing to Military service after school, became an Instructor, training Infantry soldiers for 12 years and spending time in, and training in military Intelligence during the same period in the Military Reserve Services with Situation Awareness skills as a crucial element in Bush War tactical skills and training the Public and Farmers in Situation Awareness Observation Skills during the 1980's with regards to looking for "Sign" of hostile trespassing on their properties and in general when going about their day-to-day business.
Working in the Power Generation Industry since 1980, I train new staff in the Power Generating Industry, relating to Auxiliary Plant, Boilers and Turbines, Electrical Operating Desk (Control Room operations), presenting Electrical (HV & LV) and Mechanical Regulations, Risk Assessment, Arc Flash Protection, for Operating Staff, Maintenance Staff, as well as Contractors' staff. Situation Awareness 360 Concept training is added to the Risk Assessment training process to enhance Hazard Mitigation abilities.
I also regularly present Situation Awareness 360 overview training, on request, in the form of a Morning Workshop to businesses and Contractors, for employees from Managers right down to illiterate labourers, to highlight the necessity of "learning to pay attention to what you are doing" to improve safety culture. I find that even experienced Safety Officers and Safety Managers find the concept and principles of Situation Awareness 360 surprisingly informative as a supplement to their formal Safety Training regimes.
To me that is not surprising, as Situation Awareness principles as a specialized subject, is not presented as part of any safety training anywhere in the world, except that "Continuous Risk monitoring, Near miss reporting, etc." is stated as a statuary requirement in Regulatory Requirements, but does not state "How". Naturally, standard, run-of-the-mill Risk Assessment training does not cover this specialized training skills in general, which makes it an absolute necessity to make this training part and parcel of your safety training programs.
This course will teach you how to develop your Observation Skills and learn how to train your brain to intentionally pay attention to what happens around you and pay attention to detail when the situation requires you to.
My experience with the Power Generation industry spans more than 41 years.
I am a registered and accredited Training Material Designer, Developer, Evaluator and Presenter, Training Instructor, and Assessor, actively engaged in developing new training material, improving existing training manuals and delivery mechanisms for improving effective training outcome results.
Recent re-development projects include:
1.) Power Generation Steam Generator and Turbines - Development and re-development of all Training Modules, including all Assessment Material for South Africa's Eskom Generation Division-Camden Power Station.
2.) Complete re-development of OHS ACT based Low Voltage / Mechanical Regulations Training Module, including all Assessment Material for Eskom Generation Division.
3.) Updating and editing of Electrical Operating Desk Generic and Plant Specific Training Material, including Assessment Material.
4.) All re-development included front page info and graphics in the material.
I have a passion for human resources development (Improving People Skills), using proven, as well as innovative, new methods to train people to do their work efficiently and constantly question, research and adapt my training approach and delivery to ensure my training methodology sets the standards for innovation where ever possible to ensure maximum efficiency for people working in these fields.
When a student tells you "thank you Sir, your dedication to ensure I know and understand the contents of this course to prepare for assessment and Authorization", then I feel satisfied my work and energy is paying off!