The Book
THIRD GENERATION SAFETY:
THE MISSING PIECE
Using neuroscience to enable personal safety
By Cristian Sylvestre
Neuroscience is allowing us to look deeper inside our heads and work out exactly how our brains function.
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Cristian Sylvestre takes what neuroscience is revealing and explains how understanding our brain function can help improve personal safety.
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Third Generation Safety: The Missing Piece reveals how we get hurt 95% of the time and what we can do about it, as individuals and organisations.
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Third Generation Safety: The Missing Piece
has been an encouraging and stimulating read.
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In my very simplistic overview: First-generation safety is strong on compliance, an emphasis on hazard & risk identification, safe places of work. Second-generation safety is about putting safety “front of mind” and encouraging workers to make safe choices.
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Third Generation Safety is about accepting a high percentage of the actions we perform are actually controlled by our subconscious (us operating in auto-pilot mode) and recognising these can be made safer through:
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Understanding that our subconscious understands Danger better than Risk
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An understanding of the Inattention Pattern (5 critical errors and the 4 states which cause them)
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Our subconscious response can be improved by the robust adoption of safer habits.
A key factor I like in the book is that it acknowledges Third Generation Safety should not be seen as a contradiction or replacement to, but should be used to build upon progress achieved through First-gen and second-gen safety programs.
And this will be my intent as I review the year passed and refresh our safety strategy for the year ahead at Metcash.
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Ed Napiorkowski
General Manager Safety Health and Environment
Metcash (Australia)