Day 2 | May 20, 2022 - 10:35 (CET)

How Our Natural Risk Dispositions Out-smart Process

Risk is about decision making and decision making is influenced, in all of us, by our natural risk dispositions. These are derived from the interaction between Cognition (reason) and Emotion (feelings). The Risk Type Compass divides the full spectrum of risk dispositions into eight reliably distinguishable Risk Types that define a person’s risk awareness, their reaction to risk and the level of risk that they are comfortable with. Designed originally for the finance sector and used now in establishing a clients ‘risk appetite’, in coaching traders, developing hedge funds, investment advisory boards and the board rooms of organisations, the RTC applies equally to H&S situations. It supports a risk management style that fosters trust, co-operation and mutual respect. After 50 years of HSE there is a seemingly unmovable ‘rump’ of risk incidents that elude us. The ‘elephant in the room’ has been our insistence on ‘one size fits all’ risk management processes. Rather than fighting Nature in search of blind obedience, taking Nature into account and recognising that H&S demands and requirements can fruitfully be managed in ways that support and encourage personal responsibility - and without any compromise in terms of the required safety behaviours.

Speakers:

Geoff Trickey