Every week, a new study in behavioral science is published that demonstrates the importance of context. The way a person thinks and acts in one place may be very different from the way that same person thinks or acts in another place or a different person in the same place.
In my safety management practice, it often amazes me how little it takes for someone to shift from safe mode to unsafe mode or vice versa. This means that a technique we use in one situation or with one employee might not work in another location or with another employee. Part of this appears to be because of these contextual differences. So I read all of these behavioral science studies in the hopes that I can find a few new nuggets of wisdom in each one and design more effective safety management interventions as a result.