Why is this course unique?
Over the past decades, many utilities and power companies substantially increased purchases of safety equipment, gears, outfits, and tools in an effort to reduce injury rates. However, EPRI data has shown that there is little injury rate reduction in these industries in the past five years. The missing factor is human performance improvement. Good human performance establishes a solid foundation for safety performance, whether in operational or industrial safety. While human performance techniques developed by PII have yielded phenomenal improvements in operational safety, they are often overlooked as a tool to improve industrial safety. This course offers our innovative research on human performance techniques to prevent injuries. This training course will break through the bottle neck of ineffective methods and offer a new tool for workers to protect themselves.
Benefits of this course:
Workers are subject to human error traps (such as time pressure, over-confidence inducers, after-lunch-drowsiness, etc.) and get injured or make errors. Moreover, there are hidden risks in various routine tasks that are often not recognized. Teaching workers how to cope with human error traps, and how to identify the hidden risks and prevent associated injury, can result in a significant injury or error rate reduction. PII expects that, together with other companion human performance programs, this course will help reduce injury rates by a factor of 5 to 10 in two to three years.
Topics covered in this course:
The focus of this training course is to help workers understand why, when, and how 11 types of injuries occur from the psychological point of view:
- Slips / trips / falls
- Over-exertion
- Line-of-fire
- Dog bites
- Electrical contact / Flash-over
- Vehicle accidents
- Insect / snake / bee induced injury
- Burn by gas flash or blow-by leak
- Fall from elevation
- Ergonomics-related injuries
- High Consequence / Low Probability injuries