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A Culture of Core Values as a Path to Safety, Health, and Well-being
Robin M. Nicholas
Health and Safety Communications
234 Fiesta Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 / USA
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All of us are human beings.
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All of us have human strengths
All of us have human weaknesses
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Do we punish each other for the human weaknesses
that we all share? — OR —
Do we support and protect each other from our weaknesses?
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One shared weakness:
We all make mistakes.
Why?
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Why the lack of focus?
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CORTEX Conscious
Rational Long-term
Choice
TRADITIONAL SAFETY
PHYSICAL SAFETY
Training
Procedures Regulations
AMYGDALA “Alarm Bell” Unconscious
Instinctive Instantaneous
Automatic
HUMAN SAFETY
PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
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AMYGDALA “I must survive!”
Fight-or-flight
This is our human response. This is our alarm bell …and it will win!
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Programs Directives
Regulations Practices
Safety
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Programs Directives
Regulations Practices
Protection
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Programs Directives
Regulations Practices
Physical Safety
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Programs Directives
Regulations Practices
Physical Safety
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Physical Safety
Emotional Safety
Psychological Safety
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Whole person and their wellbeing
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Is a workplace that is emotionally safe
— and — psychologically safe
…a safer workplace?
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How do we recognize an emotionally
and psychologically safe workplace?
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• “… the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and…it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions, and beliefs.”
• “As human beings, we cannot act without employing background knowledge — that knowledge that informs our decisions. Some call it Culture.”
Knowledge
Culture
Values
Nhlanhla Mkhize
University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
• Key beliefs that people consider most important and valuable
Culture and Values
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“In some days we will be announcing a new treaty
– protection, dignity – to protect all the workers in Chile,
not only in mining, but also in transportation, agriculture, fishing, [and] industry.”
—Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile San Jose Mine, Chile - October 13, 2010
(Translated by CNN)
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
— Martin Luther King Local 1199 Salute to Freedom, March 1968
Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tennessee
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International Labour Organization (Cited within the Seoul Declaration)
Decent Work Productive work for men and women
in conditions of freedom, equality, security and human dignity
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Dignity A quality of safety for the entire person
Less — intellectual concept More — personal and individual experience
Discussed in terms of other core values Trust / Respect / Self-respect
Contributing / Being heard Fulfilling responsibilities
We often become aware of dignity when it is absent.
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The opposite of dignity is humiliation.
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Humiliation is an injury.
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Is a workplace without humiliation
…a safer workplace?
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Is a workplace with dignity
…a safer workplace?
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When we talk about multitasking… ONE THING = ONE ACTIVITY
…but in terms of the amygdala
ONE THING = ONE THING SURVIVAL = SURVIVAL
— physical / emotional / psychological —
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1 2 3
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Tiger In front of you
Tiger Down the
hill
Tiger Across the
river
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Boss Yelling
NOW
Deadline Cut ½
VERY SOON
Potential Accident
POSSIBLE FUTURE
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Boss Yelling
NOW
Deadline Cut ½
VERY SOON
Potential Accident
POSSIBLE FUTURE
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Boss Yelling
NOW
Deadline Cut ½
VERY SOON Potential Accident
POSSIBLE FUTURE
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Emotional Safety
Psychological Safety Physical
Safety
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Emotional Safety
The Solution
Provide safety for the entire person — physical / emotional / psychological —
— dignity at work —
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Wellbeing & Dignity Good Work
(Safety)
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Culture / Core Values Good Work
(Safety)
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Our traditional understanding…
Greater success ê ê ê
Greater wellbeing
—Lyubominsky / Achor
Timing is Everything
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Our new understanding…
Greater wellbeing ê ê ê
Greater success Greater creativity Better efficiency
Less burnout — less turnover Greater productivity
—Lyubominsky / Achor
Timing is Everything
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“THEM” BRAIN
Divides people
Us vs. them
Protection from enemies
Short-term
survival
“US” BRAIN
Unites people
Inclusive
Taking care of each other
Long-term
survival
Dignity and the Two Brains
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He drew a circle that shut me out…
Us
OUTWITTED Edward Markham
Them
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He drew a circle that shut me out…
…We drew a circle that took him in.
Us
OUTWITTED Edward Markham
Them
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Perhaps dignity and safety are simply a matter of where we draw our circle…
how we define “us”.
Us
Them
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“The medium is the message.” —Marshall McLuhan
At work…we are the message.
How we communicate with each other and treat each other
is the message.
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Head — Heart
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Compassion Empathy
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Understanding Guidance
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Dignity is a safe work practice.
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Best wishes to you, your families, and your friends.
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To find this and other videos…
Human Beings 1&2
The Right Thing to Do
http://www.lanl.gov/safety/videos/humanbeings
http://www.lanl.gov/safety/videos/safetycinema
http://www.aiha.org/about-ih
Los Alamos National Laboratory
American Industrial Hygiene Association