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Situational Awareness
What is situational awareness, and why does it matter?

Situational awareness is being aware of what tough to pick up on, and even if we don’t online or in printed material, such as
is happening around you and recognising spot something, it doesn’t mean it’s not business cards etc.
whether there could be a threat to your happening. When we are in noisy and busy • Do not become complacent in your usual
safety or security. Well-honed situational environments, such as reception areas or surroundings. Be alert when:
awareness skills help you to identify the early public transport, we can become absorbed • Arriving to and departing from your home
signs of a threat and enable you to react and in our own thoughts and fail to see and or workplace
respond quickly to potential danger. hear signs of a threat. • Entering and exiting a vehicle
• Travelling to planned events
When we have lots of things going on Avoid complacency: • On regular journeys
around us, we may fail to notice signs that • Acknowledge that certain circumstances • In unusual or new surroundings
a situation is changing and becoming more may place you at a heightened risk. • Always display an air of confidence, even if
volatile. Sometimes, these signs may be • Do not advertise your home address you don’t feel it.

SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING

Please report all security-related matters immediately, without delay.

A delay in reporting = a delay in resolution.

On-site Control Contact details:
011 465 5466 or 066 261 7671

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