Thinking-Based Safety

What you don't know is more than you think, and it's risk you aren't managing.

And when it comes to safety, unmanaged risk is a potential injury waiting to happen. So, significantly strengthen your Health & Safety Management System and risk management with a groundbreaking approach that focuses on elevating thinking and reducing bias at all organizational levels. Understand rising cynicism and how it impacts the thinking of your employees, and individual and group compliance with authority, standards, and policies. Learn to leverage limiting perspectives that would otherwise dampen activities and reduce outcomes and see how advancements in scientific knowledge and philosophical thought can shape our perception of reality.

PLS Thinking-Based Safety - Script Spotlight

Cognitive Bias, Narratives, and Cynicism

We set the learning stage with an understanding of cognitive bias and rising cynicism. Specifically, we cover:

Three thinking tendencies that lead to incomplete comprehension, resulting in bias and inadequate solutions.
The dangers of metanarratives and local narratives and how they might affect your safety programs and initiatives.
The rise in cynicism and how it blurs meaning and decreases authority.

Getting a good and practical awareness of these influencers and their significant impact on safety is crucial to your safety planning.

Semiotics

Next we delve into the relevant complexities of semiotics, the theory of signs, and how reality communicates, and critical meaning is sometimes missed.

Grasp how we continually receive messages from our surroundings and how this is the least deciphered communication.

We also cover how we continually send/receive messages and when we aren't "tuned in" to the distinctions present, we can convey incomplete information and even communicate unintended direction that can expose employees to significant vulnerabilities.

Semiotics is a seldom used tool exploited by safety programs. Printed signs are all over the walls, but you need to understand the central substance of reality and human interactions to address underlying issues.

Post-Modern Approach

Cognitive bias, narratives, rising cynicism, and semiotics all represent twenty-first century impediments requiring a post-modern approach using multiple methodologies and views of the same situation or system. With an open-eyed foundation. we demonstrate quickly how we benefit from a holistic view of safety systems and subsystems, while we flush out purpose fractally (at all levels) between elements. Lastly we show you how you need to find ways to Increase option access and share power by distributing authority and accountability to increase safety.

We also cover post-modern collaboration approaches like aspects of Critical Systems Heuristics, PANDA, and how to use empathy to create a great meeting.

Cabrera Lab DSRP and UpThinking

A post-modern paradigm is practically facilitated with DSRP theory which tells us that thinking isn't something you do, it is something you get by applying four simple rules, Distinctions, Systems, Relationships and Perspectives Rule. DSRP was revealed by world renown systems thinking scientist Dr. Derek Cabrera of Cornell University. Think of DSRP like the ATGC nucleotides of DNA, which can combine in infinite combinations to create life. Similarly, DSRP are building blocks for thought construction. By intentionally and dynamically applying these aspects to a subject matter, you will gain deeper insight into the subject itself, people's attitudes toward it, and its relationship to other important matters.

To learn more about UpThinking or listen to the Cabrera Podcast click here.

The PLS Thinking-Based Safety Training was designed to identify and manage risk that isn't readily detected, but still highly influential in the effectiveness of your health and safety management program.

We developed this systems thinking approach to industrial safety with a post-modern paradigm to address the peripheral but highly influential aspects of bias and belief systems on behavior and safety. We are driven to enable you to significantly strengthen your risk management and safety plans with this groundbreaking approach that focuses on elevating thinking and reducing bias at all organizational levels. We teach you how to leverage limiting perspectives that would otherwise dampen activities and reduce outcomes and show you how advancements in scientific knowledge and philosophical thought can shape your perception of reality, and increase your epistemic accuracy (your ability to reliably comprehend and reflect reality)

What are the benefits of PLS Thinking-Based Safety training when compared to other safety training on the market?

Safety training relies heavily on regulatory requirements, and this is foundational, but success requires complete implementation and compliance, which is dependent upon behavioral changes and deep individual commitment.

Most safety training programs include testing and verification of information transfer.

Safety training often follows a standard, fact-based format, and by nature of the material, it can be hard to stay engaged in the sessions. As a result, rolling out the training can be cumbersome and costly.

Upon completion of most safety course training a certificate completes the transaction. There is no avenue for assistance in unique contexts, or ability for the manager to follow-up for clarification on content or application to specific scenarios.

PLS training combines advancements in scientific knowledge and philosophical thought to reduce cognitive bias in safety management, and dissects thinking, which yields behaviors. We know that bias conceals options and prevents us from seeing opportunities that bring dramatically improved results.

Our training includes real life application of practical, cutting-edge methodologies and systems thinking. This approach yields significantly expanded management capability and functional empathy that can have immediate impact.

Our training content is compelling and because of our relationship with Cabrera Lab, we can custom build packages to roll out DSRP and UpThinking training at every level in your organization at the penetration that best suits your business strategy. This training would be remote and can be digested at a customizable rate at a fraction of the initial per enrollee cost with highly engaging content.

Each training course administered by PLS Management Consulting, includes expert assistance during the course. Upon completion of the training, four weeks of on-demand assistance is included!

Engaged Employees are Happy Employees

You and your customers will be happy too! Companies that have high levels of engagement outperform their counterparts in every aspect.

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Course Materials

Thinking-Based Safety Course Book, tailored InfoSheets, four weeks post on-demand consultation