This is the first of a short blog post series, on four kinds of ‘Human Factors’: ‘The Human Factor.
Tag: blame
Written and directed by Matthew Wilkinson. A thrilling modern tragedy about a Russian architect driven…
There has been much talk in recent years about ‘never events’ and ‘zero harm’, similar to talk in the safety community about ‘zero accidents’. It sounds obvious: no one would want an accident. And we all wish that serious harm would not result from accidents. But as expressed and implemented top-down, never/zero is problematic for many reasons. In this post, I shall outline just a few, as I see them.
Again, a familiar smoke pattern has emerged from the ashes of a high-profile accident. The…
This is a keynote address from Velocity Europe 2014 in Barcelona on 17 November. I…
“Oh my God. I told those guys at safety that it was dangerous and one…