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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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Resilience Is Not What Most People Mean by It
Read article: Resilience Is Not What Most People Mean by ItWhat organisations call “resilience” is usually robustness, and in complex systems often its opposite. An essay on a consequential confusion.
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Conklin: Pre-Accident Investigations, When Incidents Are the Second-Best Option
Todd Conklin inverts safety work: the most valuable investigation is the one you run while nothing has happened yet. A book note on the mindset…
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What Happens Between Audits
Audits check states on a fixed date. Safety is a process. About the second layer of safety work that needs to stand between the audits,…
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Field Guide to Understanding Human Error – a note on Sidney Dekker
A book note on Sidney Dekker’s classic: why “human error” is never the end of an investigation, but its beginning. With the tools Local Rationality,…