... an Important Role in Serious and Fatal Injury Prevention The seventh insight has to do with safe decision-making and some of the ways cognitive bias undermines our judgment. While behavior tends to be misunderstood as only front-line employee behavior, decision-making is easier to see running up, down...

... Introduction Accurate risk decisions are critical for effective and efficient safety programs. Recent research examining chemical exposure risk judgments identified opportunities for improving decision accuracy. This presentation explores actions that safety professionals can use to improve...

... it comes to safety, what we don't know can hurt us and others—literally. Many safety-related decisions require that leaders make accurate judgments about future likelihoods. After an undesirable outcome, it often seems clear what should have been decided. When we look carefully at what we knew before...

... drivers remain safe throughout the entire year. weather skid cruise control traffic safe driving brake pressure vacation judgment vehicle tread drunk driver roadway beverage wiper ground transportation bad weather light switch alcohol school activity transportation safety...

... that mindfulness of risk must be treated as a culture that is a product of individual and group values, attitudes, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to an organization's health and safety programs. safety workplace probability injury judgment risk assessment risk...

... society human error operation judgment automation Parasuraman Session No. 534 Do Automated Control Systems Really Reduce Human Errors and Incidents? Joel M. Haight, Ph.D., P.E., CSP, CIH Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park...

... things: they simplify decision- making, and they potentially lead to errors or fatalities. Any time people have to make judgments in complex or ambiguous situations, there is a risk that cognitive bias can undermine effectiveness and compromise safety and lives. After defining cognitive bias, the author...

... of the Drama Triangle. (available in full paper) ownership triangle Supervisor drama healthy responsibility rescuer drama triangle judgment intuition Compassionate Communication safety committee rescuer position victim safety performance communication responsibility Persecutor hazard...

... or engineer out. They are affected by the characteristics and skills (or lack of) of people working - impact of previous injuries, mental components such as attention, perception of risk, judgment and decision-making and more. There are also those injuries related to repetitions in a off-work behaviors/habits...

...Going Beyond ‘Pay Attention’: Controlling Attention, Attitude and Judgment for Injury Prevention Robert Pater, M.A. Safety is much more than just preventing injuries. But even when it comes to accident prevention, people rarely get hurt because they want to, because they don’t care or are clumsy...

... will return to later. In everyday life people are always making judgments based on risk. Consciously or sub-consciously we all make determinations about what is acceptable to us. The definition of acceptable varies widely in different regions of the world, but from a European legal perspective we must return...

... Health & Medicine Movement Safety Planning Ergonomics employment law sprain human factors labor law movement safety strong behavioral component redesign US government motivation objective movement-related injury prevent strain injury safety judgment lost-time work injury...