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“Are we the baddies?!” Symbols and organisational cultures

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 08/11/201313/10/2014

Once your own culture becomes invisible to you, you know you have become a victim…

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The Principles of Punk Rock at Work

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 05/10/201322/04/2016

About the time I was born, a new musical genre emerged. Disillusioned with the rock…

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  • Culture

“So you have an under-reporting problem?” System barriers to incident reporting.

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 07/02/201313/10/2014

The reporting of safety occurrences and safety-relevant issues and conditions is an essential activity in…

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Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards: Tips for SWOT analysis from a user

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 30/01/201319/04/2018

David Thompson, a Human Factors Specialist from NATS, UK, has provided some feedback on the…

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Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards to help understand textual data

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 26/11/201213/10/2014

‘What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of…

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Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards: Tips from a user

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 18/07/201213/10/2014

I have received some great practical tips (and considerations for the future) from an ATC…

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Safety Culture in your Hands

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/07/201213/10/2014

(This article featured in The Controller – Journal of Air Traffic Control, April 2012.) by…

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Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives.

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) & Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF)

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'Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice' concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts. Buy direct from Routledge.

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