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.
May 12, 2016
Excellent! A great Cognitive bias example.I am coaching my grandson Clayton (the son of Kyle). He is 15 and is taking Driver’s Ed now.
Glad to hear you found this useful Gary. Hope you enjoy teaching Clayton. I’ve been in the same boat and it can be fun and rewarding. Tom
Your concept is correct. Main thing is to stop and ask “the” question, whatever that needs to be. If we can get people to think before action, we have won the battle and maybe the war…
Thanks Tom, glad you found it useful. Tom