UC Davis

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UC Davis Occupational Health
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What is SafeStart?

• SafeStart is advanced safety awareness training
  teaching employees how to recognize and avoid
  behaviors causing unintentional mistakes and
  errors.

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How Does SafeStart training work?

• Telling employees to be careful is not enough.
  They need to know what behaviors to recognize and
  how to respond
• SafeStart training awareness takes the mystery
  out of being careful by helping people
  recognize these critical state-to-error patterns
  which significantly increasing the risk of what
  they are doing.

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• Error states/conditions
• When employees make mistakes increasing the risk
  of injury it is usually because they were in one
  of four states or conditions (rushing,
  frustration, fatigue, complacency) which
  significantly contribute to making an error.

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States
Errors
Increased Risk of Injury

• Eyes not on task
• Mind not on task
• Line-of-fire
• Balance, traction, grip

• Rushing
• Frustration
• Fatigue
• Complacency

Over 90 of all injuries at home, at work or on
the road are caused by these error patterns.
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Rushing

• When you exceed the pace at which you normally
  perform the task, whether it is working, driving,
  walking or running, lifting or moving.

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Frustration

• Caused by relationships inside and outside of
  the workplace, malfunctioning equipment,
  inadequate tools, conflicting objectives and
  pressures, etc.

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Fatigue

• Too tired to do the job safely, either
  physically or mentally. Includes being too tired
  to react quickly, prolonged concentration is
  difficult.

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Complacency

• Familiar enough with the hazards to become
  considerably less concerned over time.
  Contributes significantly to not watching or
  thinking about what you are doing.

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Critical errors

• Anyone can get hurt if they are not looking at
  what they are doing/paying attention
• While this may appear to sound like common
  sense, unfortunately common sense is not always
  common practice.

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Eyes not on Task

• Not looking where you are going or what is
  coming your way. Includes not moving your eyes
  before moving your body or not being able to see
  where you are stepping, where your hands are
  reaching into, etc.

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Mind not on Task

• Not concentrating on the job. Being unaware of
  dangers. Forgetting things, making more errors
  than usual, going on auto-pilot, drifting
  away.

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Line-of-Fire

• Being conscious of where you are or where you
  are going in relation to the direction of the
  hazard.

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Balance/Traction/Grip

• Doing something that could cause you to lose
  your balance, traction, or grip. This can include
  not wearing good footwear/gloves, not having a
  good grip in the first place, or not seeing or
  thinking about the hazard.

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Safe Start Principles

• Once you recognize these patterns, SafeStart
  training/awareness helps employees use the
  condition or the state they are in, as a
  self-trigger to refocus their attention on the
  job at hand.

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Risk Management
Accident
Behavior
Risk Management
Situational Risk
Daily Home Work Activities
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Benefits

• OSHA states gt90 of injuries are caused by human
  error we can effectively achieve a 60-90
  decrease in injuries.
• Employees need to have an improved sense of
  awareness for critical behaviors at work, at home
  and while driving.
• Employees need to understand the daily
  situational risk and tehir corresponding behavior
• Injuries will be prevented with people taking
  more responsibility for their own safety, on and
  off the job.

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