safe habits

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AUDIENCE

• People working in a high risk workplaces

CONTENT

Workplace accidents don’t generally happen because people don’t know the rules. They happen because, in the moment, the rules weren’t driving the behaviour. Up to 95 percent of our daily actions are driven not by conscious decision-making, but by habit. 

The obvious response is training. Inductions, toolbox talks, signage, compliance modules –  those things matter – but they operate on the wrong part of the brain. ‘Knowing’ happens in the prefrontal cortex. Action is sparked by the midbrain/limbic system. There’s the gap. Mostly, we know what safe behaviour is and that’s insufficient. This workshop is about converting that knowledge into action.

Motivation is the lever. This talk centres on autonomous motivation: not enjoyment or obligation, but genuine ownership of the reason. For most people in high-risk environments, it’s not abstract — it’s getting home to their family. It’s not causing injury to someone else. That’s a different conversation than compliance training, and it produces a different kind of safety culture.

Participants will leave with a method for anchoring safer behaviour to the emotional circuitry that actually runs the show.

format

This theme is best delivered as an interactive workshop.

Attendees complete an exercise in which they specify the particular habits they want to adopt or eliminate. Then they commit to an implementation plan.

Duration: 90 minutes.