Human Behavior in Hazardous Situations

<p>Dedication</p> <p>General Introduction to This Book</p> <p>Approach and Main Questions</p> <p>Perspective on Human Behavior</p> <p>The Structure of This Book</p> <p>Part 1. Safety in Perspective</p> <p>Chapter 1. Evolution of Safety Management</p> <p>1.1 Safety Management Level 1</p> <p>1.2 Safety Management Level 2</p> <p>1.3 Safety Management Level 3</p> <p>1.4 Safety Management Level 4</p> <p>1.5 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 2. Evolution of Brain and Risk</p> <p>2.1 Stage 1, from 300 Million to 200 Million Years Ago—The Development of the Basic Brain</p> <p>2.2 Stage 2, from 200 Million to 2.5 Million Years Ago—The Development of the Emotional Brain</p> <p>2.3 Stage 3, from 2.5 Million to 10 Thousand Years Ago—The Development of the Modern Brain</p> <p>2.4 Stage 4, from 10 Thousand to 200 Years Ago—The Development of Risk Tolerance</p> <p>2.5 Stage 5, the Last 200 Years—The Sudden Increase of New Dangers</p> <p>2.6 Conscious and Nonconscious</p> <p>2.7 Combining the Topic of Consciousness and the Three Parts of the Brain</p> <p>2.8 Where in the Brain?</p> <p>2.9 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Part 2. Risk and Safety in a Neuropsychological Perspective</p> <p>Chapter 3. Risk Sensitivity: The Perception of Risks</p> <p>3.1 Creating Risk Sensitivity</p> <p>3.2 Reducing Risk Sensitivity</p> <p>3.3 The Combined Effect of Newness and Sensitivity</p> <p>3.4 Where in the Brain?</p> <p>3.5 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 4. Risk Understanding: Knowing Risks</p> <p>4.1 Enhancing Risk Understanding</p> <p>4.2 The Development of Risk Understanding</p> <p>4.3 Combining Newness, Sensitivity, and Awareness</p> <p>4.4 Where in the Brain?</p> <p>4.5 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 5. Safety Intuition: The Nonconscious Guide to Safety</p> <p>5.1 Why Safety Always Needs Effort: Unbalances in the Feedback System of Safety Behavior</p> <p>5.2 Gut Feeling, the Nonconscious Guide</p> <p>5.3 The Role of Smell in the Danger System</p> <p>5.4 Ambivalence toward Safety Costs and the Avoidance of Unsafe Situations</p> <p>5.5 The Perception of Reasonable Costs</p> <p>5.6 Unrealistic Optimism: Denying the Risk Probability</p> <p>5.7 Intuition: Traces of the Nonconscious in the Conscious</p> <p>5.8 Where in the Brain?</p> <p>5.9 Summary</p> <p>Tips to Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 6. Safety Awareness: The Conscious Guide to Safety</p> <p>6.1 Awareness and Alertness</p> <p>6.2 The Relationship Between Brain Frequency, Stress, and Alertness</p> <p>6.3 Where in the Brain and the Body?</p> <p>6.4 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Part 3. Influencing Safety Behavior</p> <p>Behavior</p> <p>The Role of Consciousness in Behavior</p> <p>Changing Behavior: How the Conscious and Nonconscious Systems Work Together</p> <p>Where in the Brain?</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 7. Influencing Safety Behavior via An Individual Approach</p> <p>7.1 What is a Safety Buddy?</p> <p>7.2 Who Can Play the Role of Safety Buddy?</p> <p>7.3 What Competences are Required for a Safety Buddy?</p> <p>7.4 What are the Activities of a Safety Buddy?</p> <p>7.5 The Safety Buddy and his Influence on Self-Image</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 8. Influencing Safety Behavior via a Team Approach</p> <p>8.1 What Makes a Group of People a Team or a Family?</p> <p>8.2 How Does Mirroring Work?</p> <p>8.3 Mirroring and Team Culture</p> <p>8.4 Mirror Systems and Behavioral Change</p> <p>8.5 The Scope of Mirroring</p> <p>8.6 Who Can Play the Role of a Challenger?</p> <p>8.7 Where in the Brain?</p> <p>8.8 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Chapter 9. Influencing Safety Behavior via An Organizational Approach</p> <p>9.1 The Role of Management</p> <p>9.2 Management as a Model</p> <p>9.3 Managing Stress</p> <p>9.4 Managing the Readiness to Take Risks</p> <p>9.5 Managing an Enhancing Safety Atmosphere</p> <p>9.6 Managing Rules and Regulations within an Organization</p> <p>9.7 Corporate Safety Programs Based on Priming</p> <p>9.8 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Part 4. Organizational Safety Management</p> <p>Chapter 10. How to Manage Safety in an Organization</p> <p>10.1 Monitoring Safety</p> <p>10.2 Regression Effects</p> <p>10.3 HR and Safety: Rewarding Safety Behavior?</p> <p>10.4 Summary</p> <p>Tips for Transfer</p> <p>Safety Philosophy</p> <p>Bibliography</p> <p>Index</p>