Presentation - Using My Brain As PPE

Duration: 60-90 mins

Overview

‘Using My Brain as PPE’ focuses on making people more responsible for their own safety. It identifies how people make errors, mistakes, miscalculations and misjudgments by outlining the basic behavioural patterns that cause over 90% of incidents. These patterns not only apply at work, but at home and on the road as well. There are 4 techniques presented that help people minimise human error

In Detail

When we were children and we got hurt, our parents used to say ‘did you hurt yourself?’ They didn’t automatically blame the hazard; rather, they saw that at least part of the cause was in our own behaviour.

But at work, our assumptions are different. Safety Legislation has left us thinking that only hazards cause injuries, not people. In other words, people are not responsible for their own safety. It’s not their fault, the hazard did it.

Although people don’t intentionally make errors, blaming the hazard does not address the problem either.

Recent research shows that over 90% of incidents are caused by the same four behavioural patterns.

These patterns not only apply at work, but at home and on the road as well. They are very simple to understand and people agree with them instinctively. The research also identified techniques to teach people how to make far fewer errors, thereby making them more responsible for their own safety.

Having a mindset that ‘hazards cause harm’ does not give people any control over preventing an incident. But when people understand that they can prevent over 90% of the injuries they have by applying a few simple tools, it empowers them to take responsibility for their own safety.