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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 Out of Necessity: What the Volunteer Fire Service Knows About the First Minutes
Read article: Resilience Out of Necessity: What the Volunteer Fire Service Knows About the First MinutesHigh-reliability research developed its principles on aircraft carriers, in nuclear power stations and in air traffic control: full-time staff, stable crews, constant practice. The Swiss…
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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…
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Edmondson: The Fearless Organization – and the Silence That Kept the Peace
A captain at a European airline, asked in a survey about a moment when he should have stepped in, remembers that he did not. His…
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Nothing About Apollo 13 Was Improvised
Apollo 13 is remembered as the greatest improvisation in engineering history. Almost none of it was improvised. The rescue procedures came out of the debrief…