The Roles of Decision Making and Behavior in Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic
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When the COVID-19 pandemic started, organizations scrambled to understand the risks and develop comprehensive prevention strategies. Today, most organizations have implemented safeguards at every level of the hierarchy of controls. No matter how good a job management has done to eliminate, substitute, engineer and administer away the hazards, we remain dependent on leadership decision making and human behavior to prevent transmission of the virus. Critical behaviors like handwashing, maintaining physical distance, using a mask, and self-quarantining require high levels of behavioral reliability in order to be effective. We know that leadership decisions directly influence these critical behaviors. In the graphic...