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SAFE-T-SCAN

The SAFE-T-SCAN© Mini Risk Assessment

The SAFE-T-SCAN© Mini Risk Assessment is the next step in the behavioral chain of decision making. Whilst the SAFE-T-START© Card introduces the employee to an elemental consideration of the general requirements that they may confront within their work task, the SAFE-T-SCAN© takes that consideration to the next level.

The SAFE-T-SCAN© Mini Risk Assessment takes employees through a four (4) step process which culminates in a decision to either proceed with the task, proceed with the task following further education/equipment/PPE provision etc, or abandon the task – and seek an alternate methodology.

The four steps of the SAFE-T-SCAN© The SAFE-T-SCAN© four (4) step process leverages the seminal influence of Operational Risk Management (ORM); a key hazard management tool of many military organizations around the World. Remember military operations are the one workplace where your competitor is out to kill/maim you. Therefore the hazard and risk management approaches, by definition, need to have the ability to function within toxic work environments. Whilst we would hope that other work environments do not confront that level of occupational toxicity, there is great advantage in using ORM tools as a mechanism to influence safer work behaviours within our workplaces.

      1. Identify the Hazards
      2. Ask the What If Questions
      3. Determine the Risk Exposure
      4. Implement Control Measures

The SAFE-T-SCAN© four (4) step process leverages the seminal influence of Operational Risk Management (ORM); a key hazard management tool of many military organizations around the World. Remember military operations are the one workplace where your competitor is out to kill/maim you. Therefore the hazard and risk management approaches, by definition, need to have the ability to function within toxic work environments. Whilst we would hope that other work environments do not confront that level of occupational toxicity, there is great advantage in using ORM tools as a mechanism to influence safer work behaviours within our workplaces.

“Most organizations operate in failure states and that just remains invisible because bad stuff is not happening. We might call that the ‘normalization of deviance’ and, make no mistake, it will kill.”

David G Broadbent

Safety Psychologist, Transformational Safety

Ricky, Atlanta

“I was fortunate to attend Transformational Safety’s Anatomies of Disaster Program. This was amongst the most powerful two days I have ever spent in a room. From the outset David Broadbent set the scene by dedicating the program to the late Rick Rescorla – the man who is credited with saving over 2700 lives on 9/11. Throughout the two days David would often respectively reflect and remember those who had died, or been injured, in the disasters we explored. He would say, and I will never forget, “…we must always remember those that lost their lives lift us up into the light of understanding”. I learnt so much. HRO, Resilience Engineering, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and more. Those of us who were there are still talking about it…… Thankyou David

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