Sustainability & Higher Order Thinking Required

Question 1

What is sustainability?

Answer 1

• maintain
• to avoid depletion of natural resources
• to maintain an ecological balance

Question 2

What is rethinking thinking using the ladder of inference?

Answer 2

Analyzing our own actions by tracking backwards:

• Actions
• Beliefs
• Conclusions
• Assumptions
• Meanings (culture & personal experience)
• Data
• Observable “data”& experiments

Question 3

What is a mental model?

Answer 3

A mental model is an explanation of the thinking process about how something works in the real world. Mental models can help shape behavior and set and approach to solving problems and doing tasks.

Question 4

What is the fifth discipline?

Answer 4

1. Personal mastery - creative tension
2. Mental models - assumptions, generalizations that influence how we understand the world
3. Shared vision
4. Team learning
5. Systems thinking

Question 5

What is systems thinking?

Answer 5

React - Events
Respond - Patterns
Design - Structure of the System
Transform - Mental Models

A holistic approach of seeing the system as a whole, seeing the forest rather than the trees.

Question 6

What is James Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation?

Answer 6

An accident is not caused by a single error or event
Accident occurs when the holes in the rows of cheese align
The different cheeses:
- Regulations
- Design & Manufacture Processes
- SOP
- Training
- Operator

Question 7

What are the 6 attributes of human factors?

Answer 7

1. Human physiology (Biomechanics)
2. Anthropometrics
3. Psychology
4. Work place design
5. Environmental conditions
6. Human-machine interface

Question 8

What is the Error chain theory?

Answer 8

It is the idea that an accident can be prevented as long as one of the links in the chain is broken.

Question 9

What is the difference between mistakes, lapses and slips?

Answer 9

Mistakes - person does something wrong because they do not know what was the right thing to do
Lapses - person forgets to do something
Slips - person does something which is not what they meant to do