Transforming Safety Vol V, (No 3)

[Chen Tom]

From: David G Broadbent

TransformationalSafety.Com  Oh .........,   Where'd That Come From?

 

Dear Tom   Since the last Edition of Transforming Safety was published I have again visited India and South Africa. The October Edition of Transforming Safety shall detail some of those involvements. First though, How about this. I was asked to speak to the Driver Trainers for a large multinational petrochemical company. These are the guys who deliver the fuel to the outlet where we "fill up" our cars etc. A Consultant in the room asked me toward the end of the Presentation:- "David, What advice can you give the Driver Trainers to pass on to their trainees when they are involved in an accident? What should they do just before it happens?" It took me a few seconds to raise my jaw from the floor. This Consultant (who purported to be able to offer safety advice) had absolutely no idea about accident causation. The reponse that came to mind by the way was "Pray"; because once you are about to drive off the cliff, its all a bit late. What really scared me though is that there are clearly people out there who purport to have expertise they clearly do not. Some of these people are actually toxic to the business. PLEASE when you are exploring individual and businesses to support you in this critical world of workplace safety take the time to fully research the who, what, why's etc. Anyway, enough of my rant for the day. In the attached Edition of Transforming Safety I have included an exploration of Fatigue, as it applies within workplaces. As is usual I have not taken a traditional approach to fatigue. Why? Because I have the view that most businesses I have seen are approaching the question of fatigue from the wrong end. Within health and safety (almost everywhere in the World) there is this thing called the Hierarchy of Control. Why is it then that most fatigue management plans I have seen focus on the base of the Hierarchy; instead of being able to demonstrate an attempt to deal with fatigue as they would any other workplace hazard. This insidious thing called fatigue (or tiredness) has so many involvements in other aspects of safety. Within the BBS community they get all caught up about Antecedents/Activators (A) leading to a Behavior (B) - and finally a Consequence (C). Well there are a lot of processes and systems that come into play within this thing we call a Human Being, that exist somewhere beween the A and the B. Just one of these is known as Situational Awareness and fatigue can play a crucial role in the cycle that determines whether a person has optimal or poor SA. Poor SA means horrific outcomes. Check out the article to see what I mean. My recent trip to South Africa was all about introducing Situational Awareness to the South African safety community. This had been on the invitation of SAFEmap Africa. I have also continued the exploration of factors, both above and below the surface, surrounding my own near fatal accident last year. In this Edition I take a swim in the World of Risk Tolerace. Imagine my surprise to find that I seem to be the only safety guy currently writing about this in respect of our safety decision making. This is unfortunate as the whole question of Risk Tolerance is critical to our ability to make sound decisions around hazardous processes etc. This is an article I think is well worth a read. Finally I found myself thinking about a recent trip to India supporting one of my global clients. It focused my mind, not for the first time, on the challenges we have when trying to design and manage safety within different global environments. It is a real challenge, yet when it comes down to it the question for me is about the inate value of life as we see it. I would really value your thoughts on this one. Send me those thoughts via e-mail. Depending upon how many people take me up on that one, I may publish those thoughts on the Website (suitable anonomised of course). "Take a Second Look" - The Situational Awareness individual development Program is coming. Stay Tuned. With my kindest regards   David G Broadbent David G Broadbent   TransformationalSafety.Com   For all your safety transformation needs visit TransformationalSafety.Com

 

[Tom]

Risk Tolerance?

No, I do not think its risk tolerance. Risk tolerance is to tolerate
certain risk, where perception of risk and its tolerable level will
not change.

The situation you describe is really risk habituation, where risk
perception change with time and result of activities in the question.

Risk of hazards are objective but unfortunately our process to
evaluate it is subjective. In our world, risk perception is a
personal experience. A lot of compaines do it in a collective way and
bring out a single number for each risk. But that is how the company
perceives this risk, the ones who are involved in the risk may not buy
in. (OK, you may argue that we shall involve these guys in the risk
evaluation. But somehow risk evaluation is subjective process. a
collective process just create a compromise result instead of a result
that everybody agrees. And in such situation, if there is a leader or
some guys hold a higher position in this evaluation process, the
result of evaluation will normally end up with his judgement)

Even a person agrees on the evaluation result at the very beginning.
say possible/severe with riding a bicycle to school (quote your
adjusted risk in your article). He will pay very attention and take
precaution at the very beginning. And because he has safe precaution,
no accident for a long time (saddly is even he has at risk behaviors,
high possibility he will be rewarded with 0 accident, Heinrich told
us) . Then he may reconsider the risk evaluation. Sooner or later,
after a enough long period of 0 accident, he will adjust the risk to
unlikely/major until a accident knocks him down. That is risk
habituation I call it.

How we can handle risk habituation? Training with real accidents? Good
ideas, but really hard to find real accidents as most companies keep
them confidential. Group discussion to exchange experience/knowledge,
a good solution but time consuming and we can not discuss each risk.
BBS? no, it will not chane perception.

So what is more effective way?

Tom

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