EP 701 - Mini - Microseconds to Mindfulness: How Planck Time Relates to Safety

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You're listening to Safety FM Min. This episode of the broadcast and the podcast

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to safetyfocusmoment.com. Well hello and welcome to another episode of Safety FM

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Min. With me. Yeah with me. You know because it's Friday so we have to do the

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shortened version of exactly what is going on inside of the world and inside

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of the multiverse. I hope everything is good and grand inside of your neck of

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the woods because that's something that's very important. So let's talk

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today a little bit about some things that are going on. Let's talk about time.

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Yeah not just time. Let's talk about the smallest unit of time possible. The

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plank second. Have you heard of this? This is the shortest measurable duration

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in physics. It's around 5.39 times 1044 seconds. So let me kind of give you the

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description here. That's a decimal point followed by 43 zeros and a half. The

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blink of an eye eternity compared to this. The flash of a camera is still too

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slow. The time that it takes light to travel to the smallest possible distance

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yep that's a plank second. Just in case you're not familiar with it. Now you

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might be wondering why yeah why are we talking about something so ridiculous and

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tiny because in safety time matters down to the smallest fraction of a second.

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It's the only takes a fraction of a second for a decision to prevent an

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accident or for a hazard to turn into an injury. But before we go deeper into

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that let's talk about something else that builds up over time and that's your

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advisor view important disclosures at acorn.com slash safety FM. So back to

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time a playing second may be impossibly short but in safety every fraction of a

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second counts. A worker notices a hazard a split second too late an injury happens.

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A driver glances to onto their phone just for a second in a crash occurs. But

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here's the thing just small investments grow into something bigger over time.

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Small safety habits add up. Micro decisions checking before lifting,

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pausing before stepping into, thinking before acting. These tiny actions

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repeated create a culture of safety. Not I mean then let's not limit to

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safeguards that we can put in place. So if a playing second is the shortest

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measure of time what's the smallest measure of safety? The moment you decide

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to act before it's too late. Remember tiny moments big impact. I have been

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your safety manager and host Jay Allen. Make sure to stay safe stay aware and

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I'll catch you next time on safety FM mini. Bye bye for now.

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