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safety professionals have an engineering background. The second
breakthrough was focused on how to use the systems: the procedures
and protocols. Man is seen as a robot that needs to be programmed to
follow the rules that safety specialists have developed and described.
The third breakthrough focused on the users and their community: the
responsibility to act safely, especially when it is not possible to describe
the work to be done in procedures. One is asked to act according the
spirit of the rules and to stimulate each other to do the same.
Safety approach
1 Technological
2 Man as machine
3 Man as member
of group
4 Man as processor
of information
Area of Brain Based Safety
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The trend is clear: Further progress in safety management can only
be achieved by focusing on the human factor. In other words, the final
breakthrough to complete safety can only be found deep inside the
actor: at the moment a person perceives and estimates the amount of
risk involved in a certain activity and at the point where he chooses his
actions, where he has the option to act more or less safely.
Paradigm 4: Safety will increase if we can understand and influence the
human factor in safety behavior.
History teaches us that safety management has a very consistent
value system (work should be possible without harming people), in
which the norms are upgraded from time to time. Safety management
started from a technological approach outside the human system and
moved step by step via the expertise area of labor psychology, via the
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