Mindful, or mind full? Bringing mindfulness to EHS
Part 2
In part one of this article, we covered quite a lot – what mindfulness is, why it’s relevant to EHS, and where, as humans, we have the most control over our lives. Moving on from distractions and reactions, here we’re going to look at solutions.
To recap, 73% of slips, trips and falls are caused by the subject being distracted (see Figure 1). A distraction of just 2.8 seconds doubles the likelihood of error. The human attention span is now apparently less than that of a goldfish, with top distractions at work being time pressures, complacency and ‘life.’