Ep3. Third Generation Safety

In Episode 6 of the Safety Frontiers Podcast, we explore the crucial role leaders play in successful behavioural change programmes. The latest neuroscience shows human behaviour is not determined only by the conscious mind. The subconscious mind plays an important and significant role through skills and habits. Leaders need to understand how to deal with both minds effectively if they are going to influence their people’s behaviour to be safer.

 In other words, since behaviour is a whole-of-brain endeavour, leaders need to use a whole-of-brain approach. In this podcast, we expand the current approach to include how to deal with the subconscious mind and how leaders can help their people achieve sustainable behaviour change. 

In Episode 5 of the Safety Frontiers Podcast - The Problem With Psychology In Safety - we continue the theme of the mind and run the ‘science ruler’ over psychology and explore its effectiveness with safety. We’ll also journey along what paths are available for us to influence behaviour, in a positive, non-blame, no fault, non-threatening way, and reveal those paths we should be traversing.

In Episode 4 of the Safety Frontiers Podcast - The Neuroscience Of Inattention - we discuss ‘the neuroscience of inattention’. In the last 10 years or so, brain science has been looking inside our heads with an explicit aim of improving our understanding of why we do what we do.

On Episode 3 of the Safety Frontiers Podcast - Third Generation Safety - we look at ‘what’s next’ in safety. We focus on Third Generation Safety, the missing piece. That is: teaching people to be habitually safer.

On Episode 2 of the Safety Frontiers Podcast - The Evolution Of Safety - we look at the evolution of safety; from the 80’s to the 90’s, from ‘eliminating the hazard’ to ‘keeping safety front of mind’. Each of these were a step in the right direction, but incidents were still happening. 

In our first episode of the Safety Frontiers Podcast, we focus the lens on using real science in safety and take a deep dive into the discoveries and insights gained from brain research over the last 5-10 years. 

Join Cristian Sylvestre and David Pope as we look at how we can improve safety by using real science, not junk science or pseudoscience. If you like the status quo in safety, give it a miss. However, if you like shaking the safety tree to get better fruit, please join us. You won’t be disappointed. 

With safety, as with other things, being human is a universal constant. We are all human first; nationality, language and even culture are overlays. 

It’s not that overlays don’t play a role, but without understanding the fundamental drivers of being human, we get an incomplete picture or the wrong picture, and end up wasting precious resources. 

For the last 10 years, many have been using the discoveries of brain science for benefit, why not safety? 

For the last 50 years, managing safety has only involved fixing the environment, improving the system, and making safety more conscious through social interactions. 

That was fine up until 10 years ago, because that was all we thought there was. 

Now we know better. 

Currently, we are missing the piece that brain science shows is responsible for up to 95% of human behaviour - the subconscious.