Table 1.

Key contributions to Situational Awareness (SA) theory.

Contributor	Key conceptual components
Oswalde Bölcke	-Origins in World War 1 aviation -Critical to helping pilots make decisions in complicated and dynamic environments
Ulharik & Comerford	-Highlight extension of SA to other fields including crisis management, non-aviation military command, medicine and healthcare, and athletics -Define common foundations across environments that call for Situational Awareness, including time constrained complex problems, high consequence decisions, and information rich and dynamic environments
FEMA	-Highlight common pitfalls to gathering SA, including unfamiliar data, communication challenges, deficiencies in mental model / approach, and overreliance on the “status quo”