Psychological Safety

Factors that can distort a worker's perception of hazard and risk, such as:

1) Suffering from an illness (e.g. ‘flu).

2) Under stress.

3) Fatigued.

4) Under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

5) Past personal experiences that is skewing their thinking.

6) Lack of good quality training and education on the hazards and risk of the job.

7) PPE that is interfering with their ability to detect the hazards creating the risk.

8) Workplace conditions, such as high levels of noise, may be interfering with their ability to correctly identify the hazard that creates the risk.

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