Single-speaker excerpt from a YouTube safety talk (Bill Gallagher). The speaker recounts incident investigations where workers admit they knowingly chose unsafe actions—either due to routine/habit ("done this a hundred million times") or mental distraction. The speaker links these conscious shortcuts and beliefs that rules are excessive to erosion of safety culture and increased incident risk.
Every single time I've done an incident investigation, the employee and the surrounding employees who watch this event go down, they've all told me I knew exactly what I was doing. I knew what I was doing was unsafe, and I chose to. I chose the unsafe route because either I've done this a hundred million times and I've never gotten hurt, or I came to work with my mind, was not in the game, and because of that, I took a whole bunch of shortcuts. So. So, yeah, I knew what I was doing was wrong. So going back to, like, what you said, it's the psychology of. Of us. It's the psychology of people. And then going to the other point is, a lot of people think, like, these rules are. It's too much. It's overbearing. It's, you know, is it really mandated? Is it really for a. Does this rule really serve a purpose? But it's those little rule breaks that end up becoming this, you know, becoming an incident or affecting the culture nonetheless.
