"CERTS"
States and Errors
Larry Wilson
SafeStart Practice Cards
FUN FACTS
100
The 4 States and 4 Errors are commonly known as the headache, the aspirin for these is....
What are the Critical Error Reduction Techniques?
100
This STATE gets you moving quickly and reduces response time to properly trigger on safely performing a task.
What is Rushing?
100
Larry Wilson is often referenced to looking like any of these 2 actors and even auditioned for a role in a Steven Spielberg film featuring one of them who got the role.
Who is Scott Bakula or Harrison Ford.
100
This card will help build one's Safety-Related habits.
What is the Work on Habits card?
100
This River was important among Native Americans and early French traders as a principle water route connecting the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River.
What is the Illinois River?
200
This CERT "Critical Error Reduction Technique" is most commonly used to prevent COMPLACENCY.
What is Work on Habits?
200
This ERROR puts one in between hazardous energy, just like being in the path of a bullet.
What is Line of Fire?
200
Though everyone recognizes Larry for his hair, prior to SafeStart, he once modeled for this.
What is Hand(s)?
200
When something happens at home and you want to record the event to prevent it from happening in the future, it can be written down on this.
What is the Analyzing Close Calls card?
200
This Illinois landmark overlooks the Illinois river and is widely used by Eagles and tourists.
What is Starved Rock State Park?
300
Using your Eyes for this is another CERT that can be used to help prevent COMPLACENCY as well as RUSHING, FRUSTRATION, & FATIGUE.
What is Look at others for the patterns that increase the risk of injury?
300
Not getting proper rest or ailing from an illness can lead to this STATE.
What is Fatigue?
300
Larry told a SafeStart story about being in these States while frequently traveling and staying in hotel rooms when he got up in the middle of the night and received a cut above his eye after banging it on the end of a side table.
What is FATIGUE and COMPLACENCY?
300
A near miss or injury happened to you and you can't wait to share it with your fellow co-workers, but you don't want to forget the details, you can keep track of the event on this card.
What is a SafeStart story card?
300
The Plant and the City of Peru experienced it's worst flood in history on this date.

What is April 20th 2013?


400
You've had multiple near misses while carrying boxes to your basement and prior to carrying the laundry down, you think about how badly you could've been hurt by falling down the steps. You just...
What is Analyzed close calls and small errors to prevent agonizing over the big ones? 
400
Theses ERRORS take one's mental focus and visual ability away possibly leading to a significant injury.
What is Eyes and Mind not on Task?
400
Larry Wilson started his acting debut on this Daily Soap Opera.
What is The Young and the Restless?
400
You notice a co-worker, family member, or neighbor performing a task that has potential for injury. You respectfully talk to that person to keep them from getting hurt. All the details can be documented on this card.
What is the Look At Others practice card?
400
A grouping of this animal is known as a murder.
What is a crow?
500
Stopping and thinking about your current state or the amount of hazardous energy you will be coming into contact with so you don't make a critical error.
What is Self-Triggering?
500
This, the hardest of STATES to Self-Trigger on, leads us to do things in automatic mode where we aren't necessarily thinking about what we are doing cause we are so used to a routine.
What is COMPLACENCY?
500
In Unit 4, this relative of Larry Wilson, talked about recognizing "One's Pre-state" to help prevent making a critical error.
Who is Taylor Wilson?
500
Soon everyone in the plant will know how to properly use this card from both aspects, the interviewer and the interviewee.
What is the Rate Your State card?
500
This US president quoted a Batman villains speech "We give it back to you, the people," almost word-for-word in his inauguration speech.
Who is Donald Trump?