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Checking Instead of Writing: Generative AI and the Check That Is First to Go Under Pressure.
Generative AI brings a safety promise into the office: the AI drafts, a human checks. That hands the human exactly the task Lisanne Bainbridge warned…
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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…
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The New View of Human Error
A short introduction to Old View versus New View. Why “human error” is rarely the cause but rather a property of complex systems, and what…
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Reaching optimal Human Performance through effective System Design
How do you design automation in complex socio-technical systems so it supports human performance rather than hinders it? Three steps: understanding tasks, assessing stability, designing…
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The characteristics of High Reliability Organizations
How can organisations cope with ever-increasing complexity? Insights from High Reliability Organizations and the five principles that make high-risk operations reliable: preoccupation with failure, reluctance…
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How good reporting makes your organisation safer
How a reporting system makes organisations safer: not through the tool itself, but through a positive reporting culture. On trust, anonymity, feedback to reporters, and…