Ep1. Using Science In Safety

In our first episode of the Safety Frontiers Podcast, we focus the lens on using real science in safety and take a deep dive into the discoveries and insights gained from brain research over the last 5-10 years. 

Join Cristian Sylvestre and David Pope as we look at how we can improve safety by using real science, not junk science or pseudoscience. If you like the status quo in safety, give it a miss. However, if you like shaking the safety tree to get better fruit, please join us. You won’t be disappointed. 

With safety, as with other things, being human is a universal constant. We are all human first; nationality, language and even culture are overlays. 

It’s not that overlays don’t play a role, but without understanding the fundamental drivers of being human, we get an incomplete picture or the wrong picture, and end up wasting precious resources. 

For the last 10 years, many have been using the discoveries of brain science for benefit, why not safety? 

For the last 50 years, managing safety has only involved fixing the environment, improving the system, and making safety more conscious through social interactions. 

That was fine up until 10 years ago, because that was all we thought there was. 

Now we know better. 

Currently, we are missing the piece that brain science shows is responsible for up to 95% of human behaviour - the subconscious.