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Humanizing Safety Rules

Safety Labs by Slice

CHAPTER

The Importance of Salient Attention

The word salient is the one people maybe less familiar with. It means something that is relevant or stands out to us. And so as we go through the world, we're not noticing every single detail of the things there because that would be exhausting. We need to grab people's attention and the less salient something is, the less focus we have on it. The amount of salience that we want may depend on the audience - somebody who has lots of experience at a particular task might find this more important than someone who hasn't done it before.

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