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Hello,
I am doing a presentation on the above, does anyone have any good images, slides or puzzles etc where i can involve my audience?
Big Thanks for your help
Katie
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Check the bbc big bang web site. They have a good presentation/questionnaire on perception and evaluation of risk. Might give you some ideas.
Remember - what is high risk for you might be great fun for members of your audience.
Question for next Friday - Should tiddlywinkers wear eye protection ? (hard hats are a bit OTT for me. But you might have a different idea)
Merv
Must go and see how the slow lamb is cooking. (medium to high risk activity)(Just by coincidence I shall be wearing safety shoes and eye protection (I'm on a pause while cutting logs) and will wear nomex gloves to get the casserole out of the oven)
Happy sunday roasting
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back again with a quick thought : Jim Reason maintained that Human Error will always be with us. You cannot totally eliminate it, only prepare for it.
Merv
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Katie
Not sure what part 'perception' plays in your human error theme. I am not an advocate of focusing on human error or BBS. The main reason is that in theory all accidents are caused by human error, whether they are active or latent failures and, even where active failures are identified as the trigger it is all too easy to underestimate the influence of latent failures through a series of cultural failures. In other words, there is a disposition to promote a blame culture rather than a learing culture arising from human error.
Anyway, enough of this pontification, some useful reading as follows:
Hood C and Jones DKC (2002) Accident and design - contemporary debates in risk management, UCL Press, London
Smith D and Elliot D (2003) Moving beyond denial: Exploring the barriers from learning from crisis - online.
Smith D (2000) On a wing and a prayer? Exploring the human components of technological failure - online.
Reason j (1998) Achieving a safe culture: theory and practice, Work and Stress, Vol 12 - online.
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Hi Katie,
I have an interactive slide show that covers perception, rapport, brain waves, and communication. It covers all the basics for occupational psychology. Give me a shout later and I will go through it with you, all you will have to do is format the background on the PPT.
I will be at home around 5.30 onwards if you want to pop round.
Chow for now,
Kev
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Ray
I'm not sure which way you are arguing, except where you blame "blaming". Now, if we took about "who's responsible" then it is much easier to look up the food chain and thus at cultural problems.
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Hi Merv
The point I'm trying to make is that by focusing on individual's behaviour it often masks the many management failures whilst dissuading the reporting of accidents and incidents. This is not good for our industry. Many construction orientated organisations in the UK focus on human error and BBS as a means of reducing accidents, but I am not convinced this is an accurate or moral method.
For example, there was a recent report by the HSE of non-reporting of RIDDOR accidents on Network Rail infrastructure by contractors. NWR had assumed that the current downward trend was due to their SMS etc. Happy that senior managers were, they were also complicit in not seeking the truth. In recent years the expectations of companies to reduce their AFR and to maintain an accident free project has led to many insidious practices.
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OK Ray,
I'll agree with that point, but we must remember that managers are human too. (most of them) and that it can be THEIR behaviour which results in latent errors, such as complacency.
It is when we can persuade them that they are a part of the behavioural picture that we can make real progress.
Doesn't happen often enough, in my experience.
Merv
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