Thinking-Based Safety
What you don't know is more than you think, and it's risk you aren't managing.
Bias is a big deal in business, and these unknowns represent risk or opportunities you aren't ready to handle. When it comes to safety, unmanaged risk is a potential injury waiting to happen or an opportunity to garner deeper commitment from employees.
Enhance your Health & Safety Management System and risk and opportunity management through a revolutionary approach that leverages adaptive higher-order thinking that minimizes bias across all levels of your organization.
Recognize the growing cynicism and effect on employee perceptions, as well as compliance with authority, standards, and policies.
Overcome limiting perspectives that might hinder progress and outcomes, and explore how advancements in scientific knowledge and philosophy can reshape our understanding of reality.
Learn how traditional problem solving introduces bias. Utilize systems thinking (DSRP-483) to analyze events and conditions such as near misses, accidents, unsafe conditions, and hazard assessments, to uncover causal networks and formulate effective corrective measures.
PLS Thinking-Based Safety - Script Spotlight
Cognitive Bias, Narratives, and Cynicism
We establish the learning foundation by exploring cognitive bias and the increasing prevalence of cynicism. Specifically, we address: -
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Three thinking patterns that contribute to incomplete understanding, leading to bias and ineffective solutions.
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The risks associated with metanarratives and local narratives and their potential on your safety programs and initiatives.
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The rise of cynicism and its effect on obscuring meaning and authority.
Gaining a solid and practical understanding of these influences and their significant effects on safety is essential for your safety planning.
Semiotics
Next, we explore semiotics, the study of signs. Understand how we constantly receive messages from our environment, a form of communication that remains largely unrecognized, even though we frequently sense its influence. We will also discuss how we continuously send and receive messages; when we fail to "tune in" to the nuances, we risk sharing incomplete information and inadvertently guiding others in ways that may expose employees, or ourselves, to significant risks.
Semiotics is an underutilized tool in safety programs. While printed signs may be prevalent, it’s essential to the deeper essence of reality and human interactions to effectively address foundational issues. Semiotics is the quickest way to individual ownership of risk management.
Adaptive, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, AHOTS
DSRP theory 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 cognitive 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 construct. 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.
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Apply AHOTS Practice in your HSMS!
Our in-class discussions help you understand cognitive bias and along with the exercises, you develop AHOTS and practical collaborative leadership and engagement practices:
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Seeing commonplace & significant vulnerabilities previously unknown.
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Applying the Love Reality Loop to enhance real-life challenge response.
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Using the 6 Cognitive Moves in problem solving (and see how traditional models fall short).
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Run through OSHA fatal injury scripts to practice the 5+ moves.
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Gain a new view of your HSMS through a systems thinking view.
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Mash the 6 moves and learn how structural predictions can elevate your analysis of any idea or challenge.
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Learn how to gain excited and insightful engagement from your team with DSRP system maps.
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)​
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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 adaptable higher-order thinking skills at every level in your organization at the penetration that best suits your business strategy. This on-demand training 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!
Course Materials
Thinking-Based Safety Course Book, tailored InfoSheets, four weeks post on-demand consultation