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Just Culture: Who Are We Really Afraid Of?

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 24/11/201624/05/2024

When we think about just culture, we usually think about accidents and incidents, associated ‘honest…

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  • Culture

Human Factors at The Fringe: Every Brilliant Thing

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 29/09/201629/09/2016

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s done something stupid. She finds…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Human Factors at The Fringe: The Girl in the Machine

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 07/09/201621/03/2023

Polly is a professional, a high achiever and an addict. Her drug of choice is…

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  • Culture

Human Factors at The Fringe

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 07/09/201621/03/2023

There have been many debates in human factors about its status as science or art…

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Mind your Mindset: Safety-I and Safety-II

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 19/01/201519/03/2023

During the last few years, different ways of thinking about safety have challenged prevailing worldviews…

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  • Culture

If It Weren’t for the Managers…

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 20/10/201420/03/2023

“If only it weren’t for the managers, the goddamned managers, always getting tangled up in the…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Maslow’s Hammer: How Tools Bias Attention and Straightjacket Thinking

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 18/12/201327/03/2023

In May 2013, Edition 5 of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)…

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Déformation Professionnelle: How Profession Distorts Perspective

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 12/12/201317/03/2023

So, what do you do? If you work in a health and safety role, there…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

‘Human error’: The Handicap of Human Factors, Safety and Justice

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 21/09/201310/03/2023

“Oh my God. I told those guys at safety that it was dangerous and one day we would lose concentration and pay for it. I already told those guys at safety that it was very dangerous! We are human and this can happen to us. This curve is inhuman!”

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Why Do We Resist New Thinking About Safety and Systems?

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 12/04/201324/03/2023

Something I have been thinking about for a while is the way that we look…

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Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice

'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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  • Reflections on the Autistic Spectrum: A Critical Response to Uta Frith's Views
  • I Crash: Texts from M.E.
  • The Varieties of Human Work
  • Proxies for Work-as-Done: 1. Work-as-Imagined
  • Mind your Mindset: Safety-I and Safety-II
  • The HAL 9000 Explanation: “It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error”
  • Proxies for Work-as-Done: 2. Work-as-Prescribed
  • Why Is It Just So Difficult? Barriers to ‘Just Culture’ in the Real World
  • 'Human Factors' and 'Human Performance': What's the Difference?
  • Four Kinds of Thinking: 2. Systems Thinking

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    Work-as-done is the work that people actually do, cognitive, verbal and manually. Work-as-judged is the judgement, evaluation or appraisal of work, via other proxies for work-as-done. Work-as-simulated is the work that is imitated or recreated in some way for the purposes of learning, testing, design, research, assessment, or exploration. Work-as-instructed is the explanation and demonstration describing how work is to be conducted or performed; the work that people are taught to do. Work-as-analysed is the process and product of examination, decomposition, categorisation, modelling and representation of work. Work-as-measured is the quantification of aspects of work: the work that is represented through numbers, metrics, indicators, scores, targets, dashboards, and other forms of quantification. Work-as-observed is the observation of the work of others, formally or informally - directly, remotely, live, or recorded - and the interpretation of what is observed by the observer. Work-as-disclosed is the work that people say that they (or others) do or did, either in formal or informal accounts. Work-as-prescribed is the formalisation, specification and design of work. It is the work that people ‘should do’, especially according to policies, procedures, rules, and so on.

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