We at BITS wish you a happy and healthy 2020! 2019 was a great year and was definitely busy. We delivered training to over 500 candidates and helped over 170 apprentices work towards a degree level qualification. We helped over 100 companies in the construction industry to improve their health and safety performance and inspected Read more about Happy New Year from Behavioural Insights Team Solutions Ltd.[…]
You would never ask anyone to rush, yet your team might think you request it all the time. I don’t think anyone would think that rushing a task or cutting corners would help achieve a safe, quality job. However, in almost every accident that I have investigated, a sense of duty to perform the job Read more about A Friday Thought on Rushing[…]
To err is human. On the 6th June 1992, Copa flight 201 ended in the worst air disaster in Panama’s history. The flight bound for Cali, Columbia came down in the jungle killing everyone on board. Initial thoughts centred on the possibility of a collision with a drug running aircraft or a bomb on board. Read more about A Friday thought on rule based errors[…]
If we are so inherently safe, why do we have accidents? I was recently at a festival. It was a family friendly festival, where middle aged adults brought their children to have fun and enjoy live music at night and family friendly activities during the day. At the festival was an old-school funfair. The fair Read more about A Friday thought on accidents[…]
Good safety is good business. The motive force behind capitalism is the pursuit of profits. This is what drives businesses to do what they do. At a conference yesterday, a very bright and successful man, who runs an aluminium smelter in Dubai, said that he tells his team “we are not in the business of Read more about A Friday Thought on Business[…]
Ultimately almost everything comes down to behaviour. When I studied for my Psychology degree many years ago, I reached the conclusion that pretty much everything ultimately came down to behaviour. If you have an earthquake and a building collapses, you could blame the earthquake. But in reality, a human designed a building that couldn’t withstand Read more about A Friday Thought on Behavioural Safety[…]
The truth is, our behaviour is based more on our learning from experience than following instruction. However, if a rule is written to keep us safe, or an instruction is given that will make our company more profitable, why wouldn’t we follow it? Until 1983, it was not a legal requirement to wear a seatbelt in your car Read more about People do as they are told, right?[…]