Proactive Approach to Safety by Understanding the Causal Factors Safer VRS

Hi, everyone. This is Eric Thibodeaux with Safer Vacation Rentals. Today's podcast is about how we can use our understanding of causal factors to avoid a lot of the problems that can happen when we are trying to create safe conditions for our employees, our properties and our communities.I know that many times people just want to take care of the consequences. They want to make sure that they've got a strategy in place for responding when something happens and they don't necessarily want to take a look at what caused it or who was responsible for it happening in the first place or what could have prevented it from happening in the first place.We'll start by talking about people's tendency to respond to the severity of the consequence, rather than the causal factors. That's not always a bad thing! It just means that people are conditioned to respond when something bad happens—and they don't always stop and ask themselves what caused it. But that makes no sense if we're going to hold ourselves accountable for everything around us and make sure it's safe for everyone involved.The good news is that there are ways you can prevent these things from happening in the first place. It all comes down to understanding what causes unsafe conditions and actions and what consequences those unsafe conditions and actions will create for you and your employees.Listen to this episode now as we talk about how to take a look at the consequences of an unsafe condition and action, BUT also focus on the causal factors that create those unsafe conditions.