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Weekly articles from research and consulting practice: safety culture, human factors, high-reliability organisations, learning from incidents, and risk management. Every Monday.
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What Gets Rewarded Gets Done: Risk Culture Beyond the Framework.
Read article: What Gets Rewarded Gets Done: Risk Culture Beyond the Framework.Since 2008, risk culture has been treated as something that can be described and assessed by supervisors. Credit Suisse had the frameworks, the limits, the…
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98 Per Cent Ticked: What Became of Gawande’s Checklist.
In 2010 Ontario required every hospital to report publicly on its use of a surgical safety checklist. The teams reported near-complete use, and nothing changed…
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The Shadow Initiation Phase: When the Project Starts Before It Is Approved.
Every project method treats discontinuation as a proper decision. In practice it counts as failure, and somebody has to answer for it. People avoid that…
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Cooperating with an Investigation That May Never Happen
Both chambers of the Swiss Parliament have agreed to make exemption from prosecution for slight negligence conditional on cooperation with the official safety investigation. Over…