A common mental model seems to be if perceived risk (possibility of harm) is low relative to other risks, take no actions to improve safety (freedom from risk).

A common mental model seems to be if perceived risk (possibility of harm) is low relative to other risks, take no actions to improve safety (freedom from risk). My model is if extreme harm is remotely possible, I ignore comparisons to other risks and take action to help limit it to minor harm (e.g. don't text while driving, wear a seat belt, wear a hard hat on a skyscraper building site, etc.). But "take action to increase safety" creates a combination of challenges for the average person: (1) Most people don't change easily ("Taking action" means change); (2) Most people underestimate the likelihood that the near future will be different than the present, that change will be thrust upon them; (3) Most people don't recognize that they don't change easily, or that they underestimate the likelihood of near-term change. (4) Very few realize that changing behavior overlaps with a lot of performance-related skills, some of which are poorly understood by virtually everyone. I have coached ten of thousands of sessions teaching voice acting, and I find that people attempting performance get stuck between stages 1 and 2 in the “Four Stages of Competence”: (1) Unconscious incompetence (Ignorance) (2) Conscious incompetence (Knowledge) (3) Conscious competence (Skill) (4) Unconscious competence (Awareness) As https://TaskCompetency.com/ https://TaskCompetency.com/ points out, stage 3 is okay for accountants, unworkable for performers. People think that if they've simply been given information and received coaching, that it somehow magically imbues them with special performance powers, yet they haven't: (1) Turned information into knowledge. (2) Applied knowledge to build skill. (3) Practiced skills to build awareness. So when people making an effort and paying to achieve change still fail at most steps for implementing change, I think there are a number of blind spots making it very difficult for people to really understand what safety is, because it's hidden behind "life performance" issues. Just my two cents. You might ask if I am simply a poor coach, and if better coaches get better results—maybe it's not an "other people" problem, but more a problem with my perceptions and approaches. There is a saying among some in our industry: "Once you get an agent, you lose your talent". (https://AcademyofVoiceover.com https://AcademyofVoiceover.com) This is due to newly trained talent no longer applying skills they have learned, due to believing that having had their training affirmed by getting an agent makes their performance "automatically high quality". There is a similar statement commonly found on websites of acting coaches, that goes something like "I'm one of the best coaches of my acting method, and I know this because I get the students of other coaches teaching my method and they haven't learned the method well". Of course statements along the lines of "others are bad, I alone am good" usually overlook many things. So in my experience, even trainers and producers of performers have a blind spot to some of the challenges in creating change in even people who are motivated to change.