Human Performance: Adaptation & Resilience

Jim Saveland, Ph.D.Program Manager for Human Factors & Risk Mgt.

RD&AChair National Safety Council

jsaveland@fs.fed.us

What Is Safety?

Resilient people adaptively managing risk

to create safety in complex, dynamic, living

systems (that are inherently

unsafe).

Human Performance:Adaptation & Resilience

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AthletesPTSD

APADiv 56

APADiv 47Positive Psychology

Mind/Body Health & Fitness

Cardiovascular fitness (aerobic exercise)

Strength training

Flexibility & Balance

Nutrition Hydration

Rest & Recovery Sleep dynamics Stress

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http://www.nifc.gov/FireFit/index.htm MTDC

Safety Paradigm Shift

Old View: The system is safe and we need to prevent human error. Compliance and Paternalism Mechanistic thinking and metaphors

New View: Resilient people adaptively manage risk to create safety in complex, dynamic, living systems (that are inherently unsafe). Commitment to system safety, risk

management, and human performance

Risk Management and Human Performance Bridge

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Compliance

SystemsHealth &

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Informed Culture -Just - Flexible -Learning -Reporting

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Some References

Traumatic Stress by B.A. Van der Kolk et al.

Trauma and the Body by P. Ogden et al.

Waking the Tiger by P. Levine The Power of Full Engagement by J.

Loehr & T. Schwartz Punished by Rewards by A. Kohn Ecological Psychology in Context by

H. Heft Integral Psychology by K. Wilber