Wearing PPE at work is a good example of habit: what you do without even having to think about doing it. Habits are what feel like normal to you.
It’s a good bet your normal bears little resemblance to this picture of someone at work.
When it comes to wearing PPE at work, you don’t have to look very hard to find situations that look like this. It happens all the time. It’s their normal for wearing PPE.
You also don’t have to look very hard to find people who wear all the right PPE at work, but, when working at home, don’t do the same thing. That’s their normal, too.
What explains the difference?
It’s probably not because some people want to go home alive and well at the end of the day, and others don’t care whether they get hurt or not. Or that people who don’t want to get hurt at work don’t care if they get hurt at home.
There must be an explanation. So what is it?
Paul Balmert
March 2023
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