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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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Planning the Return or Building Adaptation? Why BCM Is No Proof of Resilience
Read article: Planning the Return or Building Adaptation? Why BCM Is No Proof of ResilienceWhen the pandemic came, few organisations had a pandemic plan. Where one existed, it described the wrong pandemic. Organisations with plans and organisations without came…
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Endsley: Situation Awareness, and What Accident Reports Made of It
Mica Endsley built a tool for system design and measurement. Accident investigation turned it into a finding: “loss of situation awareness”, cause, full stop. A…
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What a Good Audit Can Do – Beyond Audit Theatre
“Audit theatre” is a convenient diagnosis. It mistakes the tool for its use. There are organisations that train before an audit not to say anything…
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Hollnagel: FRAM, and Why Accident Analysis Must Begin with Normal Work
Last week’s Swiss cheese essay ended with a promise: a method that begins where the slices end. Erik Hollnagel’s FRAM is that promise. A book…