What Is Situational Awareness?
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Why Situational Awareness Is Important
Situational awareness enhances response coordination, mitigates risks, minimizes damages, and saves lives. It allows individuals and organizations to better understand the dynamics of various contexts, enabling them to respond and adapt effectively. Awareness of one’s surroundings also enables effective decision-making, saving time and resources.
Situational awareness is vital in:
- Emergencies
- Natural disasters
- Security instances
- Critical events
- Work environments
Situational Awareness in Critical Event Management
A critical event is any incident or occurrence that threatens an organization and its employees, such as natural disasters, fires, public health emergencies, accidents causing bodily harm, or social crises. Critical Event Management (CEM) is an organization’s strategy, approach, and technology to proactively tackle critical events and respond quickly and effectively to threats. CEM enhances situational awareness, enabling organizations to maintain employee safety, minimize company damages, enhance resilience, and recover from incidents.
CEM approaches use technology and communication tools to respond to critical events and involve incident management and response, crisis communication, the coordination of resources, and the development of protocols and plans.
Stages of Situational Awareness
1. Perception
2. Understanding
3. Response
Be Ready for Anything
In a crisis, every second counts. When coordinating responses to emergencies and business disruptions, every delayed notification, update or decision can impede response efforts. CEM solutions provide the ability to prepare, respond and recover when the unexpected happens.