Paul Thompson

Check-the-box compliance can feel so satisfying but once you've fulfilled your regulatory requirements it can be hard to get people within your organization to recognize that human factors training is necessary to not only improve but sustain safety. Hear the true story of how a plant of close to 100 employees went from eight lost time injuries to zero recordable injuries by introducing and embracing human factors. Participants will be taken beyond just the recordable injury reduction to analyze how the company maintained a positive safety culture by implementing techniques and tools that led to increased levels of near-miss reporting, improved employee safety performance and a high level of leadership support to keep everyone safe not just at work, but at home and on the road as well. Participants will engage in a Rate Your State activity and anticipating error exercises with safe work permitting and procedure execution scenarios.

It’s no secret that workers are injured and suffer preventable injury-related deaths at a much higher rate off the job versus while they're at work. And logic would indicate that their friends and family members are hurt a lot outside of work too. Companies often notice the impact of their injured workers but have you ever thought about the impact that the injuries and fatalities of workers’ loved ones—especially children—have on employees? Learn how to make the “heart and mind” connection to reduce the impact of human factors beyond the workplace to not only reduce worker incidents but also improve family safety (when they take safety home), increase worker satisfaction, reduce absenteeism, strengthen recruiting and cause companies to have a more favorable perception in the community.