This document discusses brain-based safety and enhancing safe behavior. It describes how unconscious, nonconscious, and conscious processes influence safety behavior. External factors like safety stimuli, rules, leadership, and team behavior interact with internal processes like risk sensitivity, understanding, detection, and evaluation to determine how safely a person behaves. The more an environment is organized for safety and safety messages are spread over time and space, the more it can influence safe behavior in a positive way.
7. our
safety
agenda
Circumstances act as a
be a modelactivate patterns stage
manager
Nurture
train &
train from
learning processes
day 1
develop patterns
select the
right people
activate
safety
Nature = DNA
systems
Structures in the brain
understand
ourselves
9. forms of consciousness
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Unconscious:
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•
Nonconscious:
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•
we hardly know them, we experience some results, we can
influence them on the long run
behavioral machine, based on previously learned,
automated patterns which can be activated
Consciousness:
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thinking, activated when something new or unexpected happens
10. PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL OF
SAFE BEHAVIOR
perception
safety
stimuli
perception
rules
risk
sensitivity
risk detection
risk
understanding
behaving
safely
risk
evaluation
readiness
stress
perceptio
n
of leader
perception
team
behavior
12. The more we organize the environment for others,
the less they have to take care for their own safety
Tip 1:
perception
give risk detection
perception
safety
a
ruleschance
stimuli
risk
sensitivity
risk detection
risk
understanding
behaving
safely
risk
evaluation
readiness
stress
perceptio
n
of leader
perception
team
behavior
13. Rules and regulations have brought us a lot us safety,
now they keep us from further improvement
15. Rules and regulations have brought us a lot us safety,
now they keep us from further improvement
Tip 2:
first delete anperception
old rule
before you add safety
a new
perception
one stimuli
rules
perception
rules
risk
sensitivity
Tip 3:
regard a new rule as
risk
the last option to
risk detection
evaluation
change behavior
risk
understanding
behaving
safely
readiness
stress
perceptio
n
of leader
perception
team
behavior
16. Spreading around safety stimuli is the cheapest and best
controlled way to influence safe behavior
perception
safety
stimuli
perception
rules
risk
sensitivity
risk detection
risk
understanding
risk
evaluation
Tip 4:
spread safety
messages over
time and space
behaving
safely
readiness
stress
perceptio
n
of leader
perception
team
behavior
18. risk
sensitivity
• Unconscious
• the
perception of possible risks in our
environment
• conditioned: combination
of external
stimulus + sense of anxiety
• gives
a wake up call (take care!!)
19. risk
understanding
• Unconscious
• works
process
day & night
• scans
all recent experiences, the here
& now activities and our plans
• on
mistakes, bad planning and possible
risks
• needs
a lot of understanding of the
working processes
20. risk detection
• Combination
of risk sensitivity & risk
understanding
• Start
engine of our safety related
behavior
• Without
risk detection we stay in a
comfort zone
21. risk
evaluation
• process
by which you estimate the
possible impact of a detected risk and
the needed action
• calculates: chance
* seriousness -
safety margin
• For
simple tasks we tend to be
overoptimistic of our ability to handle
potential risks
22. perception
rules
• Rules
help to regulate behavior
• We
calculate the benefit of sticking to
a rule on a nonconscious level
• We
are more willing to follow rules is
the benefits are visible
• Too
many rules reduce risk detection
because we stop observing & thinking
23. readiness
stress
• State
of body and mind that is
appropriate for the task
• visible
in heart rate, blood pressure,
speed of communication in brain
•a
too low and a too high level of
readiness can be dangerous
• stress
= high level of readiness
24. perception
team
behavior
• we
are mammals, conditioned to stay in
a group
•a
group only allows a certain deviation
from the “normal” behavior
• too
much deviation leads to mobbing
and extinction
• we
tend to follow the team, even if it
acts in an unsafe way
25. perceptio
n
of leader
• The
most important role model
• Leaders
create trust by consistency
between words and deeds
• In
case there is a difference between
words and deeds, we follow the deeds
• We
respect a leader when he protects
the boundaries of safe behavior
26. perception
safety
stimuli
•A
lot of processes in our brain are
based on associations
• Behavioral
safety patterns can be
activated via small safety triggers in the
environment
• priming
activates both intentions and
behavior on a nonconscious level
27. behaving
safely
•
behavior is mostly a nonconscious proces
•
result of an internal battle of impulses and
needs, not on a free will
•
based on learned/stored patterns
•
influenced by our unconscious needs (e.g.
safety or nutrition)
•
very sensitive to what happens in the
environment