Get REAL About Safety Mike McCarroll & Pamela Fisher

Mike and Pam talk about how safety has changed on construction sites since they began their careers.

The recent Alec Baldwin shooting incident is an interesting study in human and organizational performance. Mike discusses some of the latent conditions, error precursors and error traps that are currently known.

Pam and Mike talk about the changes and evolution of safety training and ongoing need for improvement.

Pam talks about the problems and potential solutions to those problems in conducting meaningful JHAs (pre-work meetings).

Memories are often thought of as factual evidence during incident/accident investigations. In reality, memories are easily contaminated by others and likely to change over time. In event learning, we don't rely on memories as evidence but instead seek to understand the event context.

Successfully integrating and sustaining Human Performance in an organization requires a holistic approach. Unfortunately, too many try to piecemeal HP by cherry-picking bits and pieces of this operating philosophy. This almost always results in failure of execution. Mike discusses common ways that organizations screw up HP.