10 situational awareness training courses

Technology advances at a faster rate than we realize. This is why Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s Cyber Security Awareness course stresses the importance of staying updated with new information and cyber security guidelines. This course was created with the goal of providing employees and organizations with important information on cyber threats and attacks. Here, learners will go through typical vulnerabilities like SQL injection, session impersonation, and cross-site scripting attacks. This course will also equip your learners with methods to better protect your systems from easily exploitable flaws like data exposure and broken authentication and session management.

While cyber security is a serious topic because of sensitive data and information, that doesn’t mean that learning can’t be fun and interesting. Mitti (by SafetyCulture) is a gamified learning platform that uses real games like Jeopardy and word search. In this course, you will find these gamification templates and other interactive templates to encourage learners to continually engage with their lessons.

• Scope: Injection attacks, broken authentication and session management, cross-site scripting and request forgery, broken access control, sensitive data exposure, unprotected APIs, compromised security, identity-theft, different types of criminals

Provided by Second Sight Training Systems, Situational Awareness for Safety will introduce your employees to the theories, concepts, and skills associated with situational awareness and systematic observation. Additionally, learners will be provided with the tools and techniques necessary to help maintain safety. Here, they’ll also learn how to make conscious, informed, and safe decisions by systematically observing the environment, people, and things around them. By the end of this course, your employees will learn the importance of staying connected and the dangers of ignoring the things around them.

• Scope: Systematic observation, theories and concepts, environment observation, identify signs, taking actions through gained skills

ASTA Training’s Basic Situational Awareness course provides a guide on how to increase situational awareness for both individuals and organizations. In just 25 minutes and three modules, employees will be introduced to basic situational awareness, its importance, common mistakes, and how to monitor their own awareness. They will also discover how to identify and act in potentially dangerous situations. ASTA also provides additional elearning resources and assignments to supplement the course.

• Scope: Introduction to situational awareness, importance of situational awareness, how to monitor your own awareness, identifying potentially dangerous situations, common mistakes

Another situational awareness training course from Mitti (by SafetyCulture) is their Active Shooter Response and Preparedness Course. Active shooter attacks are rare events and are also a challenge to respond to. But, effective steps can still be taken to assure preparedness and safety. The course starts with a presentation on active shooter attack statistics and why it’s important to prepare and train for these events. There’s also a lesson dedicated to knowing how to respond during an attack and understanding the roles of security professionals in these situations. Lastly, it stresses the importance of employee vigilance and training staff to spot warning signs and perform emergency action plans.

This course, just like any other Mitti (by SafetyCulture) course on this list, can be found in Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s free course library. You can use their other courses to add to your situational and safety training programs. From crowd management training courses to emergency evacuation training courses, you can be sure that your employees will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to keep them and others safe in most situations.

• Scope: Statistics of active shooter attacks, response methods and techniques, role of security professionals, employee vigilance, training staff

Trisat’s Situational Awareness Training course uses behavioral science,  universal truths, and academic research to provide learners with a foundation of situational awareness at work or travel. In just eight modules, your employees will discover more about situational awareness, different alertness levels, color coding, and creating a security culture at work and at home. They’ll also learn about observation concepts and ways to effectively observe their surroundings and others. Additionally, they’ll learn to establish base lines, understand individual behavior and body language, and make appropriate decisions to certain situations.

• Scope: What is situational awareness, alertness levels, creating a security culture, observation concepts and baselines, understanding individual behavior, reading body language, making decisions, malicious scams, suspicious intrusion

Offered by The Personal Safety Training Group, Personal Safety & Security Awareness for Men & Women in the Workplace will give your employees a situational awareness built on knowledge of crime, awareness of surroundings, crime avoidance strategies, and personal intuition. This course can be custom-made to your organization’s needs and covers topics like intuition, crime as a process, confrontations over bias, active shootings, domestic violence, and more. Think about what topics would be more beneficial for your teams and reach out to The Personal Safety Training Group for your own customized interactive webinar.

• Scope: Customized content, intuition, crime, bias, communication planning, active shooting, threats, road rage, attempted abduction, domestic violence

Developed with the increase of terrorist and criminal activities in mind, AZTech Training does not dismiss the importance of situational awareness. Their online course aims to share different situational awareness knowledge, techniques, activities, mindsets, and responses. Employees will also learn more about the importance of using safe management practices, being proactive, using their intuition, and relying on their instincts. Not to mention, learners will go over threats of kidnap and ransom, a unique lesson that’s not present in other courses on this list.

• Scope: Understanding situational awareness, conditional behavior, kidnap and ransom, threats of an active shooter, travel safety and journey management

AnteVorte Ltd’s Situation Awareness and Personal Safety Course focuses on staying safe when traveling alone. In this course, employees will learn what to do and what not to do, along with techniques that will improve their overall situational awareness. Similarly, they’ll know how to identify the qualities of stalkers and attackers and discover where attacks happen. Employees will also be provided with advice on how to stay safe in different situations, like when walking alone or when riding a taxi.

• Scope: Surroundings awareness, qualities of a stalker and attacker, safety advice for different situations

The last situational awareness training course is Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s California Workplace Violence Prevention (CA) course. Their in-house instructional designers partnered with Polsinelli to create a course focusing on training teams to help employers offer guidance on maintaining a safe workplace compliant with California's SB 553 and OSHA standards.

While the course may seem limited by the original location of the case study, Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s courses can easily be edited to suit your organization’s location and needs. Mitti (by SafetyCulture) has a built-in drag-and-drop authoring tool for easy course editing and creation. No instructional design or coding experience is required. Your managers can easily replace the case study and its data with case studies more appropriate for your organization. And with Mitti (by SafetyCulture)’s AI translation tool, you can even present this course in your preferred language.

• Scope: Effects and types of violence in the workplace, Workplace violence prevention plan, Hazard identification and evaluation