Personal Safety and Security at Work - Situational Awareness

Let’s think situational awareness at work. When someone mentions personal safety, our thoughts wander off to highly hazardous situations in a high-risk working environment, or a situation where someone is performing complex tasks involving tools and maybe chemicals, and when it comes to personal security, we typically think of walking alone in the dark or in a bad area of town.
How come we don’t think about normal everyday workplace tasks or even walking around the workplace during the day?
Well because we are in a somewhat comfortable place -for the most part anyway. Often, we get into a sense of routine, and we drop our guard and tend to ignore emerging hazards we perceive as inconsequential or even worse we don’t pay attention to our surroundings at all.
In this video we are going to have a look at a situation where a worker needs to step out of a meeting, of course, she grabs her phone and - once away from the meeting, hits up her favourite social media feed and is met with mishaps and worse.
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Video Content Creator: Kevin Barrett, CRSP CRM

[@JJSafetyLLC]

This video is very informative and makes some excellent points. I like the analogy from 0:20-0:28

[@user-jp4tl9zd8n]

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[@MANOJKUMAR-fy5iz]

Thanks for sharing.

[@ContinuingcaresafetyCa]

Hi @MANOJKUMAR-fy5iz , welcome to our channel. Thank you for the encouraging words.

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You offer certificates?

[@MzwandileHarmans]

Nice video but can’t use it for work. Looks like the lady was looking at explicit content on her phone as she left the meeting room. And guy stepping to a lady’s ablution is kind of

[@ContinuingcaresafetyCa]

Hi @MzwandileHarmans , welcome to the channel. Actually she was looking at recipes on Instagram and we asked the male talent to look as creepy as possible in order to drive home the point that practicing situational awareness is vitally important wherever you are.