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Life After ‘Human Error’ – Velocity Europe 2014

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 19/11/201419/11/2014

This is a keynote address from Velocity Europe 2014 in Barcelona on 17 November. I…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Occupational Overuse Syndrome – Human Error Variant (OOS-HEV)

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 13/11/201419/11/2014

Occupational Overuse Syndrome – Human Error Variant (OOS-HEV) is a condition involving the overuse of the…

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  • Culture

If it weren’t for the managers…

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 20/10/201418/01/2017

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

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  • Safety

What are you reading for?

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/10/201409/12/2020

The comedian Bill Hicks died just over 20 years ago. He was not ‘just a comedian’.…

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  • Safety

If it weren’t for the people…

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/10/201404/10/2014

In Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian novel ‘Player Piano’, automation has replaced most human labour. Anything that…

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  • Safety

SAFETY is our Primary Goal!

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 02/10/201402/03/2016

OVER BLACK WE HEAR THE DULL SOUNDS OF INDUSTRY; A MUFFLED MASS OF MACHINES, GEARS, STEAM.…

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  • Safety

Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles (A White Paper)

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 27/09/201413/10/2014

This week, a EUROCONTROL Network Manager White Paper was released, entitled Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten…

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  • Safety

Safety, Human Performance, System: From Theory to Practice

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 27/09/201413/10/2014

On 24-26 September, EUROCONTROL/NAV-Portugal hosted a conference in Lisbon entitled Safety, Human Performance, System: From…

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  • systems thinking

Facing up to Command-and-Controlism: Twenty Warning Signs

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 17/07/201417/07/2014

In my last post, I offered a reworked version of the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous…

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  • systems thinking

Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/07/201418/11/2014

Most of us in democratic countries would hate to see the rise authoritarianism. When we…

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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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