The Making Safe Decisions® Solution
Advancing high levels of precision in critical work, powered by the neuroscience of decision making.
The Making Safe Decisions® Solution
Why does a worker with years of experience doing the same task suddenly make an error that results in a serious injury or disruption in operations?
Because we’re human! And human action can provoke mistakes.
Our brain functions are astounding organs. But even so, neuroscience research has found that the way our brains are designed to operate makes us vulnerable to error. In many cases, these inherent characteristics—Brain-Centered Hazards™—help our brains work efficiently. But in some cases, brain-oriented vulnerabilities can increase our exposure to injury and error. If not addressed, brain-oriented vulnerabilities are typically implicated in more than 80% of safety, quality, and efficiency issues.
The Making Safe Decisions solution teaches senior leaders, supervisors, and employees how to control Brain Centered Hazards to maximise Human and Organisational Performance (HOP).
By understanding the recent neuroscience research behind safe decision-making and recognise brain-centered hazards, leaders can take steps to enable high levels of precision, so teams are supercharged to notice drift from safe work and avoid unplanned events:
- Hone error detection skills with behavioral strategies to prevent injury and protect assets and brand reputation. Move from ‘looking’ to ‘truly seeing’ issues before they strike
- Add horsepower to your Serious Injury & Fatality prevention process
- Gain human performance tools and techniques to advance safe decision-making across levels and roles, and strengthen precision within critical tasks to avoid costly errors.
Implemented For Sustained Success
The five-step implementation processes play an important role in success, maximise learning within your staff, and enable ongoing progress and sustained results. Each implementation is scalable and customisable based on your organisation’s needs and goals.
Planning
Evaluating your organisation’s exposure profile, understanding the safety activities leaders and teams perform, and laying out the implementation’s key steps and milestones
Managing/Supporting
Building Capability
Tracking Progress
Sustaining Success
Part of a holistic approach to HOP improvement
Your organisational culture, leadership, systems, and processes, all play a significant role in controlling exposures and reliability to avoid unplanned risks. The Making Safe Decisions approach both complements and reinforces these critical factors that are essential to every human—and in turn, is reinforced by them. Working together, they form a holistic, highly effective approach to drive HOP improvement and keep people, property, and communities safe.
Your Benefits
- A workforce equipped with the tools to overcome the brain’s tendency to err
- Leaders and employees able to take action in real time to prevent mistakes
- A safer organisation with the ability to reduce risk effectively through optimised human performance
The Making Safe Decisions solution is designed for:
- Senior Leadership in organisations that are determined to learn why good employees occasionally make incorrect decisions.
- Safety Leaders and employees at all levels to learn the role of the brain and what they can do in real time to avoid unplanned events.
Why DEKRA?
- We are a forward-thinking team of safety experts, specialised on human reliability.
- We have extensive experience in transforming organisations around the world.
- We specialise in innovative solutions backed by neuroscience.