The Complacency Delusion You’ve got to hand it to Safety, it loves to talk about things it knows little about. Then it spruiks solutions based on ignorance and droves line up for snake oil and a … [Read more...] about The Complacency Delusion
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Practice, Repetition, Habit, Routine, Ritual and Decision Making in Risk
Practice, Repetition, Habit, Routine, Ritual and Decision Making in Risk Most decisions made by people are unconscious. The idea that decision making is brain activity between individuals is simply … [Read more...] about Practice, Repetition, Habit, Routine, Ritual and Decision Making in Risk
All That You Don’t See in Messaging
Elam presents all that happens in paralinguistics and messaging that is not seen in his work The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. You can download the book HERE On pages 34-38 Elam presents all the … [Read more...] about All That You Don’t See in Messaging
Body Memory and Safety
Body Memory and Safety The evidence for Muscle Memory and Body Memory is extensive (Chapter 1. The phenomenology of body memory ; Body Memory and the Unconscious ) and dispels the crazy … [Read more...] about Body Memory and Safety
Do the Right Thing, It’s Common Sense
Do the Right Thing, It’s Common Sense Wouldn’t it be easy and simple if risk was black and white and safety was as easy as ‘check your gut’ (AIHS BoK) and ‘do the right thing’ (Just Culture). … [Read more...] about Do the Right Thing, It’s Common Sense
Emotions, Bias and Heuristics in Risk
The emotions drive decision making and ought to be of interest to those who care about how people manage risk. It is useful when thinking about human emotions that we identify different ways, … [Read more...] about Emotions, Bias and Heuristics in Risk
The Purpose of Routines, Habits and Heuristics – Checking Your Gut!
It’s such a funny (peculiar) situation. As fallible people we develop routines, habits and heuristics in order to make life and living efficient and yet there is so little discussion in the safety … [Read more...] about The Purpose of Routines, Habits and Heuristics – Checking Your Gut!
Investigations and Heuristics
Investigations and Heuristics One of the traps investigators fall into is thinking that people are the sum of inputs and outputs, that the behaviourist myth is true. Decision making in complex and … [Read more...] about Investigations and Heuristics
Under Par Safety
Under Par Safety Our brains are wired for inadvertence and laziness, not for attention and choice. So why do we force people to attend long winded safety meetings which bore people to death? Also, … [Read more...] about Under Par Safety
Construction workers safer when they ditch the manual: study
Construction workers safer when they ditch the manual: study We all know (or suspect) that safety manuals really aren’t designed for ease of worker use and effectiveness but rather to comply with … [Read more...] about Construction workers safer when they ditch the manual: study
