10 Situational Awareness Training Courses

1. Family Violence and Awareness

Sometimes, it can be really hard to know what happens behind closed doors. But learning about family violence and spreading awareness can possibly save lives. Family Violence and Awareness by SC Training (formerly EdApp) is a situational awareness training course focusing on family matters. In just 5 lessons, your employees will be given an introduction to family violence, its forms, and its types. They will also learn about the effects of family violence and how to recognize the signs. Lastly, they will discover ways and methods on how to stay safe and support others. Resources are also provided in case they want to learn more about the topics of each lesson in depth at the source.

This course is presented in a microlearning format – breaking up paragraphs of information into bullet points and short yet precise sentences. Microlearning makes lessons easier to digest and retain. Training metrics like completion rates and learner engagement will also dramatically increase when lessons are shorter and easy to complete. 

• Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson, 6 lessons
• Scope: Introduction to family violence, forms and types, effects, recognizing the signs, methods to stay safe and support others, risk-management, m learning online courses

Created By SC Training (formerly EdApp)

3. Situational Awareness for Safety

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. 

• Cost: 50 USD 
• Length: 1 hour, available for 30 days from purchase date
• Scope: Systematic observation, theories and concepts, environment observation, identify signs, taking actions through gained skills

Created by  Second Sight Training Systems

5. Active Shooter Response and Preparedness Course by SC Training (formerly EdApp)

Another situational awareness training course from SC Training (formerly EdApp) 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 SC Training (formerly EdApp) course on this list, can be found in SC Training (formerly EdApp)’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.  

• Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson, 5 lessons
• Scope: Statistics of active shooter attacks, response methods and techniques, role of security professionals, employee vigilance, training staff

Created by SC Training (formerly EdApp)

6. Situational Awareness Training

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. 

• Cost: Contact for pricing
• Length: 38 minutes, 8 modules
• 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

Created by Trisat

8. The Importance of Situational Awareness

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. 

• Cost: 2,350 USD
• Length: 5 days
• Scope: Understanding situational awareness, conditional behavior, kidnap and ransom, threats of an active shooter, travel safety and journey management

Created by AZTech Training

10. California Workplace Violence Prevention (CA)

The last situational awareness training course is SC Training (formerly EdApp)’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, SC Training’s courses can easily be edited to suit your organization’s location and needs. SC Training 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 SC Training (formerly EdApp)’s AI translation tool, you can even present this course in your preferred language. 

• Cost: Free (up to 10 users)
• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson, 15 lessons
• Scope: Effects and types of violence in the workplace, Workplace violence prevention plan, Hazard identification and evaluation

Created by SC Training (formerly EdApp)