Title: Intro
Duration: 3:25 minutes
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Intro Transcript
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Our people work in hazardous environments and it is the responsibility of all of us to keep ourselves our teams our assets and the environment safe.
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Following safety practices and processes help us achieve this.
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Building our resilience also strengthens our ability to stay safe.
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Resilience is the ability to bounce back after a stressful situation.
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It's about being able to effectively deal with problems and using different tools and techniques to overcome that.
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But what does practicing resilience techniques have to do with safety.
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Challenging or frustrating situations can cause stress and our brain and body to react.
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When there is too much stress our brain converts the stress signals it receives into an alarm which activates our flight-or-fight response.
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Fight-or-flight is our body's way of getting us out of dangerous situations.
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Our body produces hormones which prepare the body to act fast but this takes energy away from
the thinking part of our brain.
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This response is developed in humans 300,000 years ago.
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To help is to react quickly and protect us against life-threatening danger such as saber-toothed Tigers.
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Today we do not need to deal with saber-toothed Tigers.
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But our brain and body still reacts to too much stress in the same way.
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Developing resilience gives us the skills to better control laugh fight-or-flight response.
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Essentially training our brains to see stress in a different way freeing up our brain to utilize our skills and experience to the best of our abilities during stressful situations while working in safety critical environment.
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The good news is that resilience is a skill that can be lucked and like any skill the more you
practice the better you become.
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The importance of developing resilience skills has been known for many years and is practiced widely among professional athletes.
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They spend hours training and maintaining their fitness but they also spend time on their mental game.
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Athletes and sports teams build their resilience skills to ensure they can think quickly and remain focused against the most challenging opponents.
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Those who are resilient move through the stress and frustration of defeat quickly.
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Of course for athletes the worst thing that can happen is that they lose the game.
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The stakes are higher for us.
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When things go wrong at work we can lose lives.
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So it's even more important that we build our resilience and ability to remain focused even in the most stressful situations.
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This is true for us as individuals and as a team.
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We can start with the resilience program which is team based.
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Made up of a series of modules which focus on specific resilience techniques.
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The program lets participants learn together.
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Strengthening and supporting each other.
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Resilience techniques are practiced using scenarios and the participants share insights on how
to apply resilience to their lives and to safety critical situations.
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Working proactively on resilience as a team we benefit from others interpretation.
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Seeing how they may approach similar scenarios and ways we have not thought about ourselves.
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Thereby keeping ourselves, our teams, our assets and the environment safe.