World Environment Day
Today is World Environment Day, serving as a reminder for all of us to make decisions that protect the world in which we live. Our environment directly affects our standard of living, and protecting it helps to keep us safe.
When we think about workplace safety, we typically think about the disasters that end in injury or death, but accidents that affect the environment are equally common in high-risk industries. From oil spills to air pollution, our attempts to make use of our resources often puts the world we live in at risk. This sometimes causes people to vilify these industries; but their rules and standards serve to protect the environment as well.
When these rules and standards fail, it harms everyone. The company responsible pours billions into cleanup, valuable time is lost, customer prices rise, and those living nearby find their drinking water contaminated and/or their wildlife hurting.
So, protecting the environment is in the best interests of everyone involved. But if the rules in place already try to do this, and failures are due to accidents, then what needs to change?
That requires looking into why environmental disasters really occur. For example, the infamous Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which we have a video on. You can watch that here.
At the end of the day, it typically comes down to people taking unnecessary risks, normalization of deviance, and human error. But how do you fix human behavior?
That’s where we come in.
Here at System Improvements Inc., we build the TapRooT® System off of human-performance expertise. That means we study why people make mistakes, and we know how to help you generate solutions beyond simply retraining or disciplining.
We are working to protect the environment by giving companies the tools necessary to enact the rules they already aim for, changing the world one system at a time.
If you’re interested in learning how to improve the system at your workplace, you can contact us for a free briefing here.
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