Has Safety Gone to the Dogs?

What do safety rules, work practices, and Pavlov’s dog have to do with you?

In the early 1900’s, Russian researcher Pavlov found that if you ring a bell then feed a dog, soon all you will have to do is ring the bell and the dog will start salivating.  (Remember the movie Turner and Hooch?)  Pavlov referred to this as a “conditioned response”.