In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Christian Hunt, author of 'Humanizing Rules' and founder of Human Risk, a consultancy and training firm that brings behavioral science to ethics & compliance.

Christian helps Safety practitioners understand and minimize their exposure to human risk, and he begins by explaining why he wrote his latest book.

Packed with entertaining anecdotes, this lively conversation explores the 3 key drivers of human behavior and introduces a simple framework (‘HUMANS’) that will help EHS professionals evaluate and design behavioral interventions (e.g. a new rule or communication program).

Throughout the interview, Christian emphasizes the importance of looking at things from the workers’ perspective - who are humans, not robots:

“Think not about what we would like people to do, but what they're likely to do.”

In this action-packed episode, we also learn 6 golden rules of compliance, including ‘Compliance is an outcome, not a process’, and ‘Just because you can doesn’t mean you should’.

This was Christinian’s second appearance on our podcast (his first was episode 4), and we hope he returns for a third time!

Find out more about Christian’s work:

Human Risk | Make your compliance programme more effective

Christian’s new book: ‘Humanizing Rules’:
Humanizing Rules: Bringing Behavioural Science to Ethics & Compliance

Christian’s Podcast:

The Human Risk Podcast

Books recommended by Christian:

“Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman –

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533555

“Influence is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen” by Zoe Chance – https://www.amazon.com/dp/198485433X

Christian Hunt on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/humanrisk/

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