What The Sinking Of The Titanic Can Teach About Learning From Accidents
Ian Pemberton
Managing Director at Human Focus ? Chartered Ergonomist ? Author of "Achieving Health & Safety Training Success" ? Globally Trusted Authority on Workplace Safety Training and Behavior Change
There’s a well-studied phenomenon by psychologists called failure denial. Unfortunately, we are hardwired as human beings to be threatened by failure. Failure for many individuals and organisations is toxic, something that is perceived as threatening.
Failure denial sits at the heart of many organisations inability to learn meaningful lessons from accidents and near misses. It’s one reason why they keep suffering the same accidents over and over.
A dramatic illustration failure denial is a tragedy that occurred almost 100 years to the day after the sinking of the Titanic.?A very modern disaster with very old roots.?Take a look at the short video below.?
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