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If You Want to Understand Risk, You Need to Get Out From Behind Your Desk

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 22/05/201328/02/2023

I saw this poster in an airport some time ago. It is an advert for…

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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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  • Systems Thinking

John Locke and the Unintended Consequences of Targets

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 17/03/201324/03/2023

With the huge evidence of the destructive effect of targets in complex systems such as…

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  • Culture

“So You Have an Under-Reporting Problem?” System Barriers to Incident Reporting

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 07/02/201309/08/2023

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

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  • Culture

Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards: Tips for SWOT analysis From a User

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 30/01/201324/04/2023

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

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  • Culture

Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards to Help Understand Textual Data

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 26/11/201224/04/2023

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

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Five Questions About Boredom, Fatigue and Vigilance

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 07/11/201214/04/2023

1. How different are boredom and fatigue? Both affect our ability to pay attention –…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Should the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors be more of a campaigning organisation? Yes.

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 03/10/201213/10/2014

Published in ‘The Ergonomist’, Newsletter of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, October 2012, p. 4…

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  • Culture

Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards: Tips From a User

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 18/07/201228/02/2023

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

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Reading on the Job: Fatigue, Boredom and Distraction While Underloaded

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 17/07/201214/04/2023

I have received a few queries asking for a view (or “the science”) on reading…

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