Larry Wilson

Rethinking Traditional Safety, part 12

A different perspective on employee engagement

November 6, 2020

In the last issue, we looked at just how many errors are caused every day by rushing, frustration, fatigue and complacency. Although, usually it’s a combination of these states, with complacency either leading the way or lurking in the background.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, part 11

Improving quality, production efficiency and customer relations

Larry Wilson

October 28, 2020

In the last article we looked at two aspects of deliberate risk and error. The first was that most people do not realize that risk that depends on error or not making any mistakes will grow over time.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, part 10

Critical decisions: Deliberate risk and error

Larry Wilson

September 16, 2020

: In the last issue, we looked at why normal people make decisions that can be compromised or negatively influenced by rushing, frustration, fatigue and complacency, or, more likely, a combination of these states.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 9

Begin making critical decisions

Larry Wilson

July 28, 2020

If you really think about it, you’ll realize that you have most likely experienced accidental pain in almost any activity you’ve ever done. So, if you can accept that the “what” isn’t really where the pattern is because we’ve all been hurt, a little or a lot.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 8

The complacency continuum and ‘when vs. what’

Larry Wilson

July 14, 2020

As mentioned in an earlier article, it’s not that we are totally defenseless, it’s that from time to time, we are momentarily defenseless.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 7

The neuroscience behind error reduction techniques

Larry Wilson

June 7, 2020

I think that it’s interesting how the neuroscience and the critical error reduction techniques are aligned or how the neuroscience supports or validates the critical error reduction techniques.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 6

Risk pattern and the concept of self-triggering

Larry Wilson

May 5, 2020

This article is really about putting all of the concepts in the previous articles together to come up with what will hopefully be the most significant change in thinking so far.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 5

How we lose safety judgment & skill development

Larry Wilson

April 1, 2020

Since mind not on task is bound to happen if you know how to do something well, there is much more “leverage” or efficiency in getting people to put more effort than they are currently making (none) into improving their safety-related habits.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 4

Skill vs. luck, reflexes and serious injuries & fatalities

Larry Wilson

March 2, 2020

Hi, and welcome back. In the last issue, we looked at risk assessments and why our most serious injuries didn’t come from the most dangerous things we’ve done.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 3

The third dimension of risk assessment

Larry Wilson

February 4, 2020

Although it seems to make perfect, intuitive sense that people would get hurt when they are doing the most dangerous things, that isn’t what actually happens to more than 95 percent of us. So, what does this mean in terms of the old risk assessment matrix?