Situational Awareness is a concept that has been around in aviation, healthcare and the military for many years. The benefits associated with situational awareness are significant with an increase in safety, task, team and organizational performance as the most important outcomes.

Human error are natural part of organizational life. In a safe environment errors can be a source of inspiration, a driver of learning and even a spark for innovation. However, in many situations human errors do more harm than good and should thus be reduced to a minimum or completely avoided at all. This especially applies to healthcare, aviation and other high-risk sectors where errors can have severe consequences.

Aviation is a good example of applied SA. They used SA, and as a result the safety is significant improved. In the chart you can see the result.

In other sectors there is also a lot to gain. If you only realize the implications of accidents and near accident.

Background info.

https://theblogbyjavier.com/2020/01/02/aviation-safety-evolution-2019-update/

But now the situation in the high risk sectors. Is the management aware of the impact of using SA, and what the benefits are. Or perhaps is management unconscious incompetent.

Reminder :

  • Unconscious incompetence :The individual does not understand or know how to do something and does not necessarily recognize the deficit. They may deny the usefulness of the skill. The individual must recognize their own incompetence, and the value of the new skill, before moving on to the next stage. The length of time an individual spends in this stage depends on the strength of the stimulus to learn
  • Conscious incompetence :Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, they recognize the deficit, as well as the value of a new skill in addressing the deficit. The making of mistakes can be integral to the learning process at this stage.
  • Conscious competence :The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires concentration. It may be broken down into steps, and there is heavy conscious involvement in executing the new skill.

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