May 12, 2016

VIDEO: Do you know how to make safe decisions?

Most safety leaders and most operations leaders think they know how to assess risk effectively. Ineffective safety decisions happen at the front line employee level, but we leaders know better. This turns out to be false. A growing body of knowledge on cognitive bias shows that human thinking in general tends to be flawed, in predictable ways, so that good leaders make poor safety decisions. In this video I present a brief example.

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