Andrew Hale: 'I came into safety by accident'

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How did you get involved with psychology?I was originally intending to study biology and possibly become a farmer like my father, but 1 really didn't like all the rote learning that was involved in that study. I did a half subject experimental psychology at Cambridge and got very interested in it. So I did my final-year specialisation in experimental psychology. I did my student project with Richard Gregory. He was something of an inspiration. After Cambridge I went to work for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (NIIP). They were doing lots of interesting work and were just about to start on a project which eventually resulted in a book called 2000 Accidents by Philip Powell and others. That was a field study of mostly first-aid injuries. Up to then I had never thought much about the causes of errors of whatever seriousness, so I truly came into safety by accident.