Human Performance Improvement
Whether you’re on or off the job, the actions you take can turn your life around in the blink of an eye. By understanding human performance, you’ll be taking a proactive step towards an injury-free career.
By understanding Human Performance Improvement (HPI) principles, we can avoid and lessen the severity of accidents and injuries. Simply stated, people make mistakes, every day. But errors are predictable and preventable and human performance can be improved.
HPI looks at everyday conditions (or, error precursors) that can lead to injury, even and especially during simple or routine activities. Precursors such as time pressures, distractions, interruptions, stress, using a new technique, overconfidence, or repetitive actions, can all lead to injury. By becoming aware of the error precursors and error likely situations, we can begin to question each situation in terms of “what could go wrong here”, eliminate the possible hazard and avoid an injury.
The ABCs of Human Performance Improvement Now on Streaming Video
Your Voluntary Protection Program and Facilities & Operations has hosted nationally recognized speaker Joe Estey, who presents on Human Performance Improvement (HPI). If you missed this enlightening conversation, here’s your chance to get smart on HPI. Estey has helped hundreds of companies predict when and where an error will occur, prevent the error and eliminate the event. With a full house in attendance, Estey explained the fundamentals of human performance and how everyone can utilize the HPI tools for recognizing error-likely situations. Human errors occur every day, however, errors are predictable and preventable. Thinking ahead about an activity results in working safely, versus thinking back after an injury and asking yourself, “What was I thinking?”
Check out the streaming video.