Mindfulness-Based Risk Reduction® (MBRR®): An Integrative Approach to Industrial Safety

Successfully managing workplace risk is one of the largest costs to global business at $3 trillion dollars or more. Mindfulness as a safety discipline is increasingly being applied in training leaders and employees, in managing risk and preventing the very causes that put safety at risk.

While rigorous research on organizational outcomes from mindfulness training is lacking, numerous studies provide substantial evidence that mindfulness training can improve safety. For individuals, mindfulness training clearly improves cognitive function, emotional well-being, and overall health, which can lead to improved safety. For organizations, mindfulness training can improve communications, working memory and sustained attention, which can lead to a collective mindfulness and overall improvements in organizational safety.

MBRR® integrates mindfulness-based training, practices, principles, and values to systematically reduce the exposure, frequency, and severity of harm in organizations. This session will highlight the mechanisms, measures, and overarching theory of change for mindfulness-based safety, connecting facets of mindfulness to individual and organizational safety. Audience feedback to this model framework is encouraged. Presenters are also looking for collaborators for pilot testing, measuring, and validating core elements of the MBRRSM framework in industrial operations.