EHS Moment_Weekly Quiz

What is the topic of this week's EHS moment?

• Capacity to fail safely & Organizational performance

• Hindsight bias & Human Performance

• Week signals matter & avoiding confirmation bias

• Leadership response matter & avoiding confirmation bias

Why weak signals matter? Choose all that applies

• Power of small signals may indicate an increase in safety threats to a stable system

• It's background noise that can led to a significant pattern of disconnected information

• It tells us who makes the error and how the mistakes happen

• These weak signals can / will tell us much than what we know / think we know

See below with how we cultivate "Anticipation Culture" through our personal behaviors, EXCEPT

• Enforcement - Leaders need to ensure compliance to all the policies and procedures

• Seek - Leaders must seek out exposures and increase level of awareness

• Say - Leaders must develop culture of openness and promote team in speaking up

• Reinforce - Leaders must practice behaviors that make employees feel safe to raise concerns

Confirmation bias occurs when .....

• we do not have the ability to prevent an incidents

• someone makes error or mistakes, we tends to have assumptions on what had happened

• people filter out facts and opinions that don't coincide with their preconceived notions

• we oversimplify causality and underestimate the uncertainty people faced at the time

What could happened if we are always at confirmation bias condition? Choose all that applies

• Failed to interpret information in an unbiased way

• Can lead to serious misjudgments

• Clouds our judgement and stop us from actively seek out information

• Open to criticism and proactively ask for second opinion

How do we avoid confirmation bias?

• Continue to filter out facts and opinions

• Actively asking opposing or challenging questions, keep information channels open

• Being blind to facts and context that don't support own theory

• What we see & want to see is what we beliefs