It wasn’t until recently that we started understanding that people with different personalities tend to naturally pay more attention to safety attributes like work environment, people, equipment, processes, etc. based on their personality tendencies. Here are some simple definitions to get you thinking about personalities in a little different way:1
How people interact with systemic drivers is called the “task-based system” and is useful to help us understand where risk may come from. An example may be if you were going to turn over mowing your lawn to your teenager. You could use the task-based system to better help them understand where the risk may actually come from, instead of where their personality may THINK it will come from. A socializer will probably not see the neighbors as a distraction risk, because they are people-oriented. A doer just may be ready to go because they have watched you mow for years and they think they are ready to operate the equipment.