We’re exposed to a lot of data and new technology: Over 50% of safety professionals use new health and safety software/apps (per the Nation Safety Council). And instrumentation often provides a stream of numbers to assess. But what does it mean and not mean? How much confidence should you have in the data? And your decision-making based on it?
There are two parts: the technological side and the human side. On the tech side we can have air monitoring data. Many aspects affect it including a point in time vs. average, max/min values, interferences, zeroing and calibration, poisoned sensor, inert atmosphere, limit of detection, etc.
With our human side we have heuristics, cognitive biases, fast thinking/intuition, distractions, habits, our affective/experiential risk system, threat to value, work pressures, group think, psychological safety, etc.
In this session, we’ll describe and decipher these concepts and how they work using examples and “case stories” to engage learners.