60 - Humans are the Strongest Link in Safety – But We Have Treated Them as the Weakest
(Room 382B)
24 Oct 18
1:00 PM
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2:00 PM
Safety’s traditional focus on “the human factor” presents the human as the weak link in the safety chain – a risk taker, prone to error and unreliable. It’s very rare these days to find a safety conference where the human being is not being fingered as the key problem in safety. It also has been the central belief of the safety industry during the last two decades. The focus of behavioral safety is on the risk behavior of humans, to eliminate at-risk behaviors, to increase “safe” behaviors and to combat complacency. But humans are the strongest link in safety. This session will outline how a radically different approach can unleash extraordinary human capabilities in the workplace – because only humans can be inspirational, adaptive, imaginative and persist against all adversity!