Cooper’s color code utilizes five colors to illustrate levels of awareness based on your heart rate. The original color code only used four colors. The color “Black” was added later. The initial four colors were white, yellow, orange, and red. White is unsustainable and believed to be incapable of surviving a critical incident. Yellow is considered a base state of general awareness and is infinitely sustainable.
The color code is scalable, and individuals may oscillate up and down the scale based on stimulus. The higher one moves beyond yellow, the less sustainable the state of awareness. Each color describes a specific state of awareness, such as Oblivious, Aware, Alert, Engaged, and Frozen.
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