Interventions coaching

Why is it that when an object is dropped it continues to fall without any further intervention Do objects need to be coached in how to fall Of course not gravity takes over once you let go of an object and no further intervention is needed to make the object hit the floor. Processes that occur without added external energy or without additional intervention are called spontaneous processes. Now imagine that the very same object that was dropped to the floor suddenly leaves the floor and comes back to your hand (assume no springs, rockets, or legs to jump with). That would be quite a surprise An object that has fallen does not come back to your hand because that would be a nonspontaneous process. There are many spontaneous processes in our universe for example, the spontaneous decay of the nucleus of an atom. It should be noted that if a reaction is spontaneous, the reverse reaction will not be spontaneous. If we are going to make a nonspontaneous reaction occur, then energy and outside intervention will be needed. 

The results of this preliminary investigation accorded with historical perspectives and recent sport coaching interventions of the critical nature and immediacy of mental state changes on performance. The person focused approach must be seen to be timely given the magnitude and frequency of human error attributed to incidents. The economy and utility of an intervention that operates in a one-to-many relationship such as the recoveiy of SA process (one technique that addresses many types of situations), is an attractive prospect to that of the present many-to-many (a specific procedure to deal with each situation) approach in safety training. 

This undersfanding is critical if safety coaching is to be a "fact-finding" rather than "fault-finding" process. It also leads to an objective and constructive analysis of the situations observed. This is how people discover the reasons behind at-risk behaviors and design interventions to decrease them. 

We hardly ever get natural feedback about our safety-related behavior. When we do get natural feedback, what form does it usually take If we are lucky, it is only a near hit. If we are unlucky, it is an injury. So where do we get the feedback to improve our safety-related behaviors It must come from people. Giving feedback to others, and receiving feedback from others about safety, is vital to improving safety-related behavior. In fact, it is the most cost-effective intervention technique a safety coach can use. 

Safety coaching is a critically important intervention approach, but keep in mind the many other ways you can contribute to the health and safety of a work culture, hi other words, safety coaching is one type of intervention for the "1" stage of the DO IT process. Any variety of activator and consequence strategies explained in Chapters 10 and 11, respectively, can be used as a behavior-based intervention. These steps require people to go beyond their normal routine to help another person. The next chapter shows how we can support and, thereby, improve safety with everyday interpersonal conversations and informal coaching. 

This part of the Exemplar HealthNet intervention included the appointment of physician mentors to help peers adopt best practices, to develop and share ideas for practice quality improvement, and to provide positive coaching for poorer performing physicians (those who were disruptive or abusive or under disciplinary review). ... 

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