Situational awareness
Understanding surroundings, noticing meaningful changes and recognising when attention should shift from routine activity to personal safety.
Streetwise StreetSafe
Practical safety knowledge for everyday environments.
StreetSafe is our community-facing approach to helping people recognise risk, make safer decisions and respond more confidently when something does not feel right.
The idea
Safety information should be useful before an incident happens.
People are often given advice after something has gone wrong. StreetSafe focuses on practical awareness that can be understood and used in everyday life without encouraging fear or unrealistic ideas about personal safety.
The emphasis is on awareness, avoidance, communication, seeking help and making proportionate decisions.
StreetSafe themes
Confidence through practical understanding.
Personal safety
Simple habits that can reduce vulnerability while travelling, working, socialising or moving through unfamiliar places.
Conflict awareness
Recognising escalation, maintaining space, communicating calmly and knowing when disengagement is the safer option.
Reporting and support
Knowing when and how to report concerns, preserve useful information and seek appropriate help.
For organisations and communities
StreetSafe can support wider safety initiatives.
The themes can complement workplace safety activity, community engagement, educational settings and organisations that want to give people practical tools for recognising and responding to difficult situations.
Where a requirement needs formal professional training, we direct organisations towards the appropriate Streetwise training provision rather than presenting general awareness as a substitute for competence-based training.