Personal Factors in Safety
14 min! Run Time
Employees
only
of Completion
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
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Built by safety professionals.
Personal Factors in Safety
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Frequently Asked Questions
Personal factors like judgment, stress, and fatigue shape the actions we actually take, even when we already know the safe procedure.
Yes, the course explains how experience can create both positive and negative effects, sometimes leading to shortcuts that increase risk.
It identifies the effects of stress and fatigue on decision-making and recalls specific ways to counter those effects on the job.
Yes, learners identify communication strategies that help improve safety outcomes, since how coworkers share information often determines whether a hazard gets addressed in time.
The course runs 14 minutes and covers experience, judgment, stress, fatigue, and communication as they relate to safety decisions.
How do we make safe decisions? Knowledge alone is not enough. Take this course to learn about factors that influence the actions we decide to take and how you can improve personal factors in safety. Ideal learners include all employees.
Course Objectives:
Recognize how experience can have positive and negative effects on safety;Recall factors that affect our judgment;Identify the effects of stress and fatigue;Recall ways to counter the effects of stress and fatigue;Identify communication strategies to improve safety
Duration: 14 min.