Understanding and Influencing

Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Sadiq Ansari

• 31 years of experience in Managing Projects. PMI- PMP®,

PMI - PgMP®(PMI Program Manager- in progress),
Professional Engineer- P.Eng., Canada.
• MEng., Masters in Project Management, MBA., Finance
and Marketing. Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering.
• Previous Organizations- General Electric Canada, Bruce
Nuclear power plant Canada, Pak Arab Refinery , Sherritt
International Canada , University of Alberta faculty (
visiting), Ontario Power generation Canada
Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance
The ILO estimates that some 2.3 million
women and men around the world
succumb to work-related accidents or
diseases every year; this corresponds to
over 6000 deaths every single day.(
more then 4 every minute) Worldwide,
there are around 340 million
occupational accidents( 647 every
minute) and 160 million victims of work-
related illnesses annually. ( 304 every
minute)
Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

•The construction industry has a disproportionately

high rate of recorded accidents.
•Younger and older workers are particularly
vulnerable. The ageing population in developed
countries means that an increasing number of older
persons are working and need special consideration.
Risk Tolerance
• Risk tolerance involves weighing a
number of factors that influence a
decision to either accept or reduce risk

Risk tolerance is individual !

Risk Tolerance
• How these factors are perceived and
weighed in the mind of the worker and
work group
• Dave Fennell ( thanks for major info for this presentation )
and the ExxonMobil Human Factors COE Task Force
explored:
• Relationship between Hazard Recognition, Risk
Perception and Risk Tolerance
• Factors that influence decisions to take chances
 Noise , harmful chemicals ,
working at heights, falling debris,
stored energy , clutter , open pits,
line of fire , moving equipment ,
High risk tolerance - is
this a hazard ?

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 Risk Perception / Tolerance Model
Hazard Identification Risk Tolerance

Falls, Falling objects, electrocution; are the

topmost incidents in construction industry
 In the Classroom

In the ‘Workplace’
• JSA often identify the hazard
• Hazard is discounted or no mitigation
Not
Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

for any activity, people accept a particular level of subjectively evaluated
risk to their health and safety in order to gain from a range of benefits
associated with that activity.
Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

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Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

 Conclusion of first part -
Understanding and Influencing
Risk Tolerance

By Muhammad Sadiq Ansari

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Discussion slide 1
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Unsafe Acts & Conditions

Near Hits 3,000 (estimated)

Hits
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 Bonus slides
Safe site, is a reliable site, is a cost efficient site!”
• Operational Excellence
Hazard Protective
– Plant Equipment
‘Barriers’
– Process
– People Plant Equipment
• Leaders must demand Weakness in
high standards for controls
Processes
each of these or ‘Holes’

People

INCIDENT

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 Safety Culture Assessment Feedback
We hear about We are pretty
good and There are a lot
incidents, but of meetings
there are no getting better
but no
details of what’s feedback or
been done action
Ineffective
communication
I don’t know the
safety results
Its much better
than it used to be
There’s no I think our
shift safety
handover results are
process good
 Safety Culture Assessment Feedback
Until they fix or Senior Its hard to see
improve things I management or feel
don’t believe they are never seen improvement
walk the walk in the
workplace
Lack of visible &
Managers are felt leadership
not coming commitment
around
We’re too
reactive. We wait
I only see my for something to
I only see the supervisors happen then we
bosses when when there is do something
there is a a problem
tour
 Safety Culture Assessment Feedback
Procedures are
We need more not followed
consistency from There is no
with little handover
our supervisors consequence process

Inconsistent
Its production First Line
over safety here
Leadership
I have seen
supervisors turn
Each area of the their backs on
Every crew issues
Plant has
manages
different
differently
standards &
expectations
 Safety Culture Assessment Feedback
At other Used to be a Discipline is
companies there higher level of given in one
was zero accountability area and not the
tolerance
other for the
same infraction

Inconsistent and
Some people
get away with Low
anything Accountability
Equipment
damage
happens all the
There’s no time with no
enforcement of There’s zero
accountability consequence
policies and
procedures
Safety Culture Assessment Summary
Ineffective
communication No positive
change
Equipment &
infrastructure
Injury rate
Lack of visible & felt condition
increase
leadership commitment

Inconsistent First Line

Leader capability + No concept of
what good
looks like
= Standards are
not followed

A sense of comfort with Critical Risk

Old habits die
the status quo Management/P
hard
rocess Safety
compromised
Inconsistent and low
accountability
 Our Site Pictures
When: 2023
Where: Plant (east side)
In these photos, a worker
(contractor) exited the front
of the mobile equipment
and stepped onto grating
that was not put into place
properly as operations had
lowered a sump pump into
it earlier and did not put the
grating back fully. The
worker and the grating
subsequently fell into the
sump.
Our Site Pictures
 Our Site Pictures

When: 2023
Where: Roadway (North
side of plant)

In this photo, a contractor

was pulling off to the side of
the road and slid into this
ditch that was hidden by the
snow. The ditch was not
marked.
 Our Site Pictures
When: 2023
Where: plant

In this photo, contractors

(project) were attempting to
angle the Mobile Lift to
reach their work. Although
this may not appear to be a
significant hazard, when the
lift is extended, the angle is
increased causing greater
risk to the workers. This was
not the right equipment for
the job.
 Our Site Pictures

Where: Plant
When: 2023

A worker built this to stand

on instead of looking for a
moveable platform, ladder
or asking to have a scaffold
built.
 Our Site Pictures

When: 2023
Where: Storage Building

In this photo, a newer driver

(to our site) from Praxair
was attempting to deliver
compressed gas cylinders to
the storage building and
drove into the ditch. There
was no spotter and the
ditches are not marked or
protected.
Our Site Pictures
Our Site Pictures
Discussion ! One key take away

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