Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Both feedback from peers and from a safety buddy can help in this
process.
Tips:
Organize personal feedback moments on exposed safety behavior,
for example, when a project is being evaluated.
Manage this feedback at least a few times a year
Incorporate safety behavior as an integral item in job appraisals.
Tip 4: Workshop Stress Management for Managers: How to
Regulate Stress.
A usual course in stress management aims at reducing stress. Brain
Based Safety states low stress is as dangerous as high stress. During
high stress, our motor skills weaken and our perception narrows, but
during low stress our system is just not ready to act, and our percep-
tion misses relevant details because it is lazy.
Stress management means managing stress to an optimum level:
enough work to feel a light pressure, not so much work that one has
problems finishing it within the demanded context.
Tip: Investigate the present stress level at work by observing, and
make a plan to tackle both ends of the stress spectrum.
Tip 5: How to Deal with Safety Regulations.
There is no professional area in which there are no rules and regula-
tions. Either government regulations dictate rules and regulations so
that a company receives a license to operate, or company policy
imposes them in order to smoothen and connect work processes. In
some cases, the number of rules is enormous and rules might even be
contradictory. This can create a tendency to neglect some of the rules.
Often rules are seen as obligations that slow down work, sometimes
without personnel even knowing reasons for the rules. The less clear a
rule is, the higher the tendency to break it.
Every rule is made to reduce risks, and behind each rule there is
often a world of hidden information. Rules usually are the result of
thorough thinking, but the reasoning behind the rule is seldom available
anymore.
