Do your workers have the illusion of being invulnerable?
Study: How people conceptualize risk can hurt them
No matter how many safety training courses emphasize how dangerous it can be to work with electricity, chemicals or cargo unless proper safety protocols are followed, there is always a percentage of employees who believe they aren’t vulnerable to such risks — until it’s too late.
Those types of perceptions need to be changed before injuries or fatalities prove them wrong, say authors Anna Floyd and H. Landis Floyd II in the April issue of the American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) Professional Safety titled, ”The Value of Vulnerability.” Safety professionals must ensure their training courses go beyond statistics in conveying how to properly manage risk.