Nov 10, 2017
Categorized under: Safe Decision Making™ Articles
What role does Safe Decision-Making play in organizational safety and how does cognitive bias come into play? In this video, I explain cognitive biases and their direct effect on safety. Learn how Status Quo and Over-Confidence Bias can affect Safe-Decision Making, as well as their relationship to SIFs. https://youtu.be/LcrYxmpPDPs
Sep 26, 2016
Categorized under: Safe Decision Making™ Articles
You are the maintenance manager at a recycling plant. You have 30 work orders outstanding and you’re already over your budget for the month, but a request comes in to repair an important piece of equipment. Your worker assigned to evaluate the problem says it will be $1000 to repair the machine. He can keep it running for a while, but the blade needs to be replaced. You realize that you are about to make an important decision that has safety, quality, and production impacts. What you may not realize is that it matters how you frame your options. You...
Jun 13, 2016
Categorized under: Safe Decision Making™ Articles
This is the third in a series of 3 videos in which I explore the role of cognitive bias in decision-making (Watch Part 1 here and Part 2 here). In this final video, I provide an example of how our understanding of cognitive bias relates to safety. Part Three: Learn more about our approach to behavior based safety
Jun 3, 2016
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There is a growing body of knowledge which shows that human thinking tends to be flawed, in predictable ways. Cognitive bias can cause even good leaders to make poor safety decisions. This is the second part of a 2-part video. Watch Part 1 here Learn more about our approach to behavior based safety
May 12, 2016
Categorized under: Safe Decision Making™ Articles
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. Learn more about safety leadership
Apr 29, 2016
Categorized under: Safe Decision Making™ Articles
I was on the way home from Houston, after several days of meetings with clients about decision making, cognitive bias and the prevention of serious and fatal injuries. I was in the terminal walking toward the gate. First I saw the kid, wild eyed, head jerking back and forth, looking down toward the gate and then back up the long airport corridor. Panicky looking. Then I saw a white haired man in his fifties, running toward him. He moved like he hadn’t done much running for a long time. Stiff joints, trying hard to move as fast as he could...
