Situation awareness is the ability to maintain awareness of what is happening both in the task and in your surroundings. In other words, keeping the ‘big picture.’ On the job, at home, and even commuting between the two, you maintain situation awareness all of the time without even knowing it. We will explore the components that make up good situation awareness in this section. However, before we go further, could you think of any factors that could keep you from seeing the big picture? What are they?