Situational awareness is the foundation of one’s personal safety. It focuses on being aware and paying attention to your environment.
Situational awareness is just another word for mindfulness. And developing it makes you more present in daily activities. In turn, it also helps you make better decisions in all aspects of life.
This day highlights the importance of using situational awareness skills in everyday life to stay out of harm’s way.
Harm may come in the form of walking in front of a moving car or that of an assailant. Either scenario can happen from a myriad of distractions causing one not to be aware of the surroundings and situation.
In a dangerous situation, being aware of a threat even seconds before may keep someone safe. It gives them time to act instead of reacting.
The lack of or inadequate situational awareness is considered one of the primary factors in accidents attributed to human error.
Although this skill is lacking in many parts of modern society, our ancestors used it to great utility to survive. For decades, the military and law enforcement have taught it to their personnel.
However, situational awareness training is not exclusive to their training regimens. Most experts agree that situational awareness is the number one skill for the safety of everyone.
In World War I, German flying ace Oswald Boelke identified the concept of situational awareness.
He realized ‘the importance of gaining an awareness of the enemy before the enemy gained a similar awareness and devised methods for accomplishing this.’
HOW TO OBSERVE
A great way to observe this important day is by discussing it with those around you. While you do, you’ll be improving the safety of those you love.
Be human again. Pay attention to the people and events happening around you more than you pay attention to modern-day.
Use #NationalSituationalAwarenessDay on social media.
HISTORY
Pretty Loaded, LLC submitted this day in November of 2015. Pretty Loaded, LLC is an innovative situational awareness and self-defense enterprise that has inspired the personal safety of millions around the world.
September 26 was chosen as the day because it is the birthday of American woman Dru Katrina Sjodin, one of the inspirations to start Pretty Loaded, LLC.
Born in 1981, Sjodin was abducted from the Columbia Mall parking lot in Grand Forks, North Dakota, by Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. on November 22, 2003. Sjodin was 22.
Her disappearance and murder garnered great media coverage throughout the United States and prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry.
https://www.nsopw.gov/en-US/Home/DruSjodin
In 2015, the Registrar at National Day Calendar® declared the day to be observed annually on September 26.
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