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Every article from the magazine, newest first.
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Resilience Is Not What Most People Mean by It
What 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,…
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People are not the weak link
US Airways 1549, Hudson 2009: what saved Sully that day wasn’t the procedure. A case for questioning the standard “human error” diagnosis, and what it…
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What it means to tailor a system
Three principles for the craft that gives this magazine its name: measure instead of assuming, respect the fabric, build adjustment in. With a tailor’s workshop…
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Three Assumptions We Need to Leave Behind
From a Three Mile Island indicator that showed a command instead of a state to three assumptions that still shape how we read safety. A…
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How our mental picture can endanger us
Why “false alarm” is one of the most dangerous terms in everyday firefighting work. How the mental picture we bring into an operation shapes our…
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Measuring corporate culture in real time
How do you measure corporate culture in real time without exhausting annual employee surveys? With weekly mini-surveys and a management cockpit that makes trends visible…
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Achieve outstanding performance with psychological safety!
Why psychological safety is the most important success factor for teams (and what a Google study showed). On toxic work environments, learning organisations, and the…
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Measuring safety
Three common views of safety: as compliance, as the absence of accidents, as acceptable risk. Why none of them on its own is enough. With…
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The Human-Centred Organisation
How can organisations cope with the complexity of a fast-changing world? ISO 27500 offers seven principles for human-centred organisational development: from valuing individual differences to…