Stress

Representing a significant risk to safety and operational effectiveness, stress can bring about reactions such as tunnel vision or confusion that substantially degrade situation awareness—in ourselves and in our people. To mitigate this risk, leaders act to alleviate the effects of stress by:

• Understanding our own stress reactions—the triggers that set them off, the symptoms, the mitigations to put into place to reduce them.
• Monitoring and preventing stress buildup in their teams—openly discussing the causes of stress and the potential mitigations.
• Encouraging team members to watch out for each other by monitoring one another’s stress reactions.

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