Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Presented by:
Dan Hannan, CSP, CHMM
Safety Director
Associated General Contractors of MN
What This Presentation is NOT!
• Although we are talking about how
the mind works, NO hypnosis will be
performed .
• It is NOT a group therapy session to
uncover some horrible aspect of your
childhood.
• It is NOT going to involve an IQ test
or otherwise measure your safety
intelligence or aptitude.
Presentation Objective
Answer is >75
An Ounce of Prevention is
Worth…
Employee and company safety-oriented programs designed
to promote safe behavior and make our jobsites a safer:
• Craft labor apprenticeship training programs
• OSHA 10/30 Outreach training
• Volunteer Protection Program (VPP)
• State OSHA safety partnership programs
• Tool box talks/best practices
• Safety seminars and workshops
• OSHA consultation visits
• Pre-task planning
• Health and safety plans…
Why do we still place so much time and
money into correcting unsafe conditions
when more times than not the root cause
is human behavior—ability to recognize a
hazard and make the proper decision?
Or
Have children?
WHY?
The Psychology of Safe Behavior
There appears to be three critical elements
that shape our thought and reasoning
processes and how we display that in the
form of safety behavior (our actions)
1. How We Learn (educated and trained)
2. How we are Motivated and
Influenced (to do safety)
3. Ability to Focus and pay
Attention (to the task at hand)
First—set the stage with some current safety psychology principles.
The Mental Side of Safety
LESSON 2
Aside from your safety
behavior in the workplace,
should your employer care
about your safety off the
job?
Learning Processes
Characteristics of Adult Learners
• Adults learn and retain information at
different speeds.
• Adults are most receptive to training if
they have an immediate use or need for
the skill or knowledge being taught.
• Adults bring a great deal of life
experience to a training situation. It is
important to allow adults to share their
knowledge and expertise.
Characteristics of Adult
Learners
• Adults have expectations about what they are
being taught. In the case of safety it would
be that they are being taught the correct way
of doing things to be safe and productive.
• Information retention and learning is based
on what is already known.
• Learning progresses from the simple to the
complex. People learn best if you break a
process or skill into fairly simple pieces for
learning retention.
• A skill must be used to be remembered.
It is Estimated . . .
Motivation
and
Influence
Nothing says motivation like…
Motivation
Motivation = ”…the forces influencing
people so as to control the making of their
decisions…”
Risk
For the home, do you perceive the risk to be
less than on a jobsite?
Attention
and
Focus
Attention—Nighttime Work
Zone Safety
Attention and Mental Focus
• "Are the schedules being accelerated so quickly that
people are being sloppy and not paying attention to
detail?" asked Louis Coletti, president of the Building
Trades Employers' Association, the largest contractor
group in New York City.
• OSHA investigators concluded Hardrock didn't watch the
rigging that maneuvered the girder closely enough, said
John Healy, director of the agency's Englewood office.
"The company really didn't have a strong practice of
training their people in following up and monitoring that
they are paying attention to rigging at all times," Healy
said.
Attention and Mental Focus
ENR report July 29, 2008
“Some see the project schedule as unrealistic. City
Center ($9.4 billion, 76 acres), Las Vegas, is being
built in the same time frame that it took to
complete the adjacent $1.6 billion, 37 story Bellagio
Resort which is only one building and 25% the
amount of space.”
Imagine the mental focus required for this
fast-paced work scheduled especially when
fatigue is a major concern. Some 13
workers have died on this project to date.
Pay Attention!
Easier said than done some times
right?
Attention and Mental Focus
How many of you can honestly say that you
mentally focus on specific tasks on a
jobsite?