"Neuroscience: The New Frontier in Safety Management" Webinar

Every year, organizations invest billions of dollars in new safety initiatives that fail to produce desired results. The primary reason is the inability to produce the sustained change needed for lasting impact on human behaviour. Becoming aware of and changing deep seeded habits and beliefs that have been fired and wired, and rest mostly in the unconscious mind, is what leads to true and lasting change. Using the understanding of the neuroplastic nature of the brain, a formula can be applied to allow employees to learn new ways to think, act and feel; in short, create a new mindset towards workplace safety. This session will focus on the new frontier in safety management; neuroscience, and how it can be applied to transform safety culture and performance.

This webinar will also discuss the link between stress and incident rates. We will explore the effects of stress on the body and human (safety) performance. Understanding how neuropathways in the brain are created and sustained, and how they impact human performance, provides a doorway to radical shifts in safety performance and culture.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand why sustained change in safety culture and habits is difficult to achieve with traditional change management models
• Explain the new findings in neuroscience and how they can be applied to increase employee safety performance
• Distinguish three types of stress and illustrate their effect on the employee health and safety and incident rates
• Discuss why not all stress is created equal, why the same stress effects employees differently and how it can be managed with a new model of change

Format: Lecture

Classification: All audiences