Do people respond to risk assessments or how risky they feel the work to be? This study surveyed 120 construction workers to understand their rational & emotional responses to risk. PS. Check out my YouTube and recent Critical Control / barrier vid: https://youtu.be/Ly1mEn_KCLQ?si=yG3yRVOM0r2eyyKI Shout a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinson Yes – it’s one of those ‘unsafe behaviour’… Continue reading Do we see how they perceive risk? An integrated analysis of risk perception and its effect on workplace safety behavior
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The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Evidence from Natural Language Analysis of Online News Articles and Social Media Posts
At what point does the loss of human life become mere statistics? This study analysed >100k mentions of death in news articles and social media posts based on valence (overall positive or negative qualities) and arousal (the degree of intensity people have about the text), grouped by number of deaths mentioned. Paul Slovic was a… Continue reading The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Evidence from Natural Language Analysis of Online News Articles and Social Media Posts
Safe As podcast e18: When emotion leads risk – risk as feelings and not just numbers
Risk in safety is often framed in matrices as likelihood x consequences. It holds an allure of (semi)objectivity – the numbers are the numbers. But what is the role of emotion and feelings within our risk judgements? Today’s article argues that what we ‘feel’ about risk precedes and influences what we ‘think’ about risk. This… Continue reading Safe As podcast e18: When emotion leads risk – risk as feelings and not just numbers
Known risks = risk and unknown risks = uncertainty; some definitions of risk
Just recorded a pod on a paper discussing different notions of ‘risk’. Paul Slovic discusses risk as analysis vs risk as feelings (affect/emotion). It reminded me of these constructs of risk vs uncertainty based on Knights work – discussed by Gigerenzer and colleagues in the two attached extracts. Simply, for Knight, ‘risk’ is represented by… Continue reading Known risks = risk and unknown risks = uncertainty; some definitions of risk
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