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June 7, 2022
8:15AM - 9:15AM
Safety Origami – A Mind Puzzle for the 21st Century
Michael Fleming, President, Decision Point
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Industrial safety has evolved with a blend of models, eras, programs, investments, regulations, and societal expectations in pursuit of incident prevention. Collectively these are akin to “safety origami” – a multi-dimensional “mind puzzle.” Today’s work teams benefit from past thought leaders through implementation of game-changing puzzle pieces. Creating smooth job performance with minimal or “no” harmful incidents requires alignment of organization leaders and front-line workers with jointly understood values that promote astute decision-making during job planning and job execution processes. From technical safety to worker mental health the span of these “human” process needs is wide. No human process is more fundamental than hazard recognition because workers cannot manage what they do not recognize. Like the fundamental “fold” in origami that connects all elements of a complex three-dimensional design - hazard recognition informs the decision-making elements within interconnected workplace systems. High-level individual and team hazard recognition competency drives informed risk-based job planning, system error identification, and large-scale warning signs and transcends an organization’s job performance from the “point-of-the-spear” to the C-suite. This presentation provides a brief view of how safety and health evolved over the past century and challenges us to think about the interconnected “fold” we are searching for to intensify smooth job performance and advance our wholistic pursuit of health, safety, environmental, and high-hazard process risk reduction and harmful event avoidance.
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Safety Origami – A Mind Puzzle for the 21st Century
Industrial safety has evolved with a blend of models, eras, programs, investments, regulations, and societal expectations in pursuit of incident prevention. Collectively these are akin to “safety origami” – a multi-dimensional “mind puzzle.” Today’s work teams benefit from past thought leaders through implementation of game-changing puzzle pieces. Creating smooth job performance with minimal or “no” harmful incidents requires alignment of organization leaders and front-line workers with jointly understood values that promote astute decision-making during job planning and job execution processes. From technical safety to worker mental health the span of these “human” process needs is wide. No human process is more fundamental than hazard recognition because workers cannot manage what they do not recognize. Like the fundamental “fold” in origami that connects all elements of a complex three-dimensional design - hazard recognition informs the decision-making elements within interconnected workplace systems. High-level individual and team hazard recognition competency drives informed risk-based job planning, system error identification, and large-scale warning signs and transcends an organization’s job performance from the “point-of-the-spear” to the C-suite. This presentation provides a brief view of how safety and health evolved over the past century and challenges us to think about the interconnected “fold” we are searching for to intensify smooth job performance and advance our wholistic pursuit of health, safety, environmental, and high-hazard process risk reduction and harmful event avoidance.
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