Yesterday, my post regarding the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) stirred a lot of private comments among many of you. It was nice to see we can at least agree on our roles as safety pros and leaders. But I was reminded of a group discussion with many of those same safety pros years ago…...
World-Class Safety will always be “human based” Read More »
For all of the AI lovers, remember this: AI can NOT walk a mile in anyone’s shoes AI does NOT have empathy AI can NOT coach a worker in need of a safety moment AI does NOT answer the phone 24/7 when it is needed So if a safety pro is afraid of AI replacing…...
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COMPREHENSIVE HAZARD IDENTIFICATION is key to effective risk management. The RISK arising from a HAZARD that has not been identified cannot be managed…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
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“…if you do not manage human error, human error will manage the organization, always at great cost and often at great danger.” James Reason – Video Series, Managing Human Error… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
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The appreciation that a person makes of the situation depends mainly on the following four elements: the nature of the information available personal experience, which results in personalized mental models, and a library of configurations that the brain recognizes. the purpose of his current work: if the operator is focused on the resolution of an…...
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It is impossible to change the safety culture without modifying the signals that the organization sends through the greater or lesser quality of what it offers in terms of technical design, safety management systems, and integration of human and organizational factors. Source: The ICSI “Safety Culture” working group (2017). Safety Culture: from Understanding to…...
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Each time the site director has been confronted with a contradiction between safety and production, he has chosen to favor safety, or on the contrary, he has accepted to “adapt” safety rules to achieve a production target. Each time an operator reaches a production target but has taken a risk to do so, the management…...
There is one common theme in all the facilities I worked at during my time as safety and health manager/director… the employees were the ones who would explain to guests how we achieved the level of safety that set us apart from others. Most guests came to visit thinking they would discover a magic pill…...
Improving the safety culture requires an integrated approach to safety through coherent actions in three (3) areas:… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Use safety as the vehicle to create a facility culture where SAFETY IS VALUED. For any organization to advance in safety, there MUST be TRUST and CREDIBILITY, and the path to building both starts with EMPATHY. Showing workers, we actually care about them is STEP 1 to any shift in safety. And EMPATHY is a…...
Do not try to create a “safety culture” Read More »
The significance (or severity) of an event depends upon the consequences suffered and not on the error that initiates it. The error that triggers a serious accident … and the error that is one of the hundreds with no consequences… can be the same error. Human Error, James Reason, Department of Psychology University of…...
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Management’s responsibility for controlling the unsafe acts of employees exists chiefly because these unsafe acts occur in the course of employment that management creates and then directs. Management selects the persons upon whom it depends to carry out industrial work. It may, if it so elects, choose persons who are experienced, capable of, and willing…...
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