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Category Archives: Culture
Just culture: Who are we really afraid of?
When we think about just culture, we usually think about accidents and incidents, associated ‘honest mistakes’ and ‘negligence’ (by whatever name), as well as official responses to these, at company and judicial level. The notion of just culture is driven … Continue reading
Human Factors at The Fringe: Every Brilliant Thing
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s done something stupid. She finds it hard to be happy. You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Human Factors/Ergonomics, Humanistic Psychology, Safety, systems thinking
Tagged assets, safety-II, theatre
Human Factors at The Fringe: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Walrus’ award-winning show returns to Edinburgh in Paines Plough’s Roundabout. ‘Let’s just talk until it goes.’ The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find … Continue reading
Human Factors at The Fringe
There have been many debates in human factors about its status as science or art or both, and the scientific literature has recorded some of the issues spanning back over 50 years (e.g., de Moraes, 2000; Moray, 1994; Wilson, 2000; … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Human Factors/Ergonomics, Humanistic Psychology, Safety, systems thinking
Tagged art, communication, ergonomics, human factors, practice, research, safety, science, theatre
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What I learned from Velocity Barcelona 2014: Reflections on Human Factors, Safety and WebOps
I went to Velocity EU 2014 in Barcelona this week – the conference for web operations/WebOps people (around 2000 participants in the US, around half that in Europe). Velocity is a great conference. The schedule is here. I went to talk about life after ‘human error‘, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Human Factors/Ergonomics, Safety, systems thinking
Tagged safety, Velocity, WebOps
If it weren’t for the managers…
“If only it weren’t for the managers, the goddamned managers, always getting tangled up in the system. If it weren’t for them, the world would be a systems thinker’s paradise.” In a previous post, an article for an issue of HindSight magazine on … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Humanistic Psychology, systems thinking
Tagged local rationality, management, managers, systems thinking
“Are we the baddies?!” Symbols and organisational cultures
Once your own culture becomes invisible to you, you know you have become a victim of it. There are, however, physical manifestations of our organizational life that we can notice – if we look: symbols. Look and ask around your … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged culture, organisational culture, safety culture, symbols, systemsthinking
