Using Neuroscience to Minimize Inattention ☆ Author: Third Generation Safety ☆ Keynote Speaker
This is so true, especially in safety. We could also include fatigue. But these are not "sins". They are part of being human. Rather than refer to it as "laziness" which doesn't help anyone, why not acknowledge what the neuroscience shows and help people deal with doing things in autopilot (without much thinking, if any at all). From the outside, it looks like laziness or complacency, but that's just the tag we give it. The solution is not to control the world around us so we never get impatient, fatigued or complacent. Getting people to try to continuously think about safety is not much of a solution either because the human brain just doesn't work that way. The solution is to teach people how to recognize these human functionalities asap and get them to apply techniques that minimize their impact at that time.
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I help companies reduce injuries by addressing human factors
7moChristian...I like the spin of bringing it back to human factors but, having 2 children, I think that those tags can still apply. A person can be lazy without being tired and a person can be impatient without being frustrated. It is part of the culture of wanting something now vs. working for it, as is laziness. People would rather resort to easier money like lottery tickets and crime to get what they want. They aren't tired, just entitled!