Psychology and Safety

Determining the status quo and the desired evaluation of the impact and the components of psychology and safety

Today, human resources are considered as the most important assets of the organization and improving management, despite its importance, is a very difficult task because in any case, organizations are developing and evolving and expectations from managers are rapidly increasing and changing. One of these expectations is the share of succession in management positions, which can not be met by re...

Sports safety: nutrition, psychology, overuse, contact, strength, and non-contact.

Attention to Safety and the Psychology of Surprise

Aviation accidents are rare and often triggered by surprising atypical events, often where important data do not get noticed or attended. Yet most psychological research on attention and human response deals with and statistically analyzes “typical” or “average” behavior, not the psychology of surprise. We emphasize the relevance of attention to safety, to automation, and to the psychology of s...

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Improving Safety Leadership Using industrial/organizational psychology to enhance safety performance

SSAFETY PROFESSIONALS ARE charged with reducing employee injuries and promoting a strong safety culture within their organizations. To achieve this, they must gather and apply information from many sources, including psychology. In fact, much information has been gleaned from one of the most powerful and proven subdisciplines in psychology, applied behavior analysis. Little existing research in...