Autopilot, Inattentive Habits and Complacency - The Main Drivers of Human Behaviour
We know that doing things around the person to keep them safe is good to do, as is getting them to think more about safety. But we’ve been doing exactly that for 50 years and since 2010 safety performance has stagnated.
What are we missing?
We know that most of what we do we have done many times before. Neuroscience shows that when we do familiar things, we do them in Autopilot using Inattentive Habits mostly, and that leads to what we commonly refer to as Complacency.
Rather than just persevering with what we have always done expecting a different result, we could also be using the discoveries of neuroscience to help people understand what drives their behaviour and what they can do to be safer. After all, the subconscious neural pathways determine up to 95% of what we do in-the-moment.
In this webinar, we have discussed the Autopilot-conscious interplay in our brain that drives most of human behaviour, under which situations each “controls” what we do in-the-moment and how we can use the discoveries of neuroscience to help people behave safely.
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Presented by
Christian Sylvestre
HabitsafeCristian’s 25-year safety career started in chemical manufacturing and then moved to the oil and gas industry.
In this heavy processing environment, he quickly learned that there are different types of safety and different ways to think about each one.
As a professional chemical engineer and having completed a Masters, he is trained to analyse complex problems and to use evidence-based science to deliver the simplest solutions that achieve positive safety outcomes.
His main field of interest is inattention, something that is in play in 95% of incidents and traditional safety has largely ignored.
He got interested in neuroscience about 15 years ago and wrote a book “Third Generation Safety: The Missing Piece – Using Neuroscience to Enable Personal Safety” to help people understand how inattention comes about and what we can be done to minimise it.
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