Plugging the holes in holistic safety

Give people a better understanding of why people do what they do and discover what influences their behavior. More importantly, find out what leaders can help people strengthen how they think, feel and behave to improve organisational performance, especially safety.

Organizations continue to be challenged to find ways to improve safety performance, whether it’s the prevention of severe injuries (or worse), reducing injury rates or helping people deal with mental health issues. Puzzled by why their safety performance stagnates or in many cases deteriorates, organisations continue to persist, believing that having compliant systems in place is much of what is needed.

They do not recognize other aspects, holistic safety factors, that can help improve safety performance significantly, as well as organisational and human performance.

• So, where are the “holes” and how do organisations improve the use of holistic safety? By strengthening how people think, feel and behave.
• Applying holistic principles backed by brain science allows us to align what people do for safety with human biology. In other words, when people are personally aware of their “brain mode” and know how to deal with it, they maximize their ability to be situationally aware.