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Digitalisation at Sea: All Hands on Deck

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 03/02/202220/03/2023

This article is a reproduction of the Editorial published in HindSight magazine issue 33 in…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Learning About Healthcare Work in a Pandemic

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 17/09/202010/12/2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has had one of the biggest effects on work-as-done in healthcare in living memory. So what might we learn about work from the perspectives of frontline workers? I asked a variety of practitioners to give a short answer.

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

HindSight 28 on Change is out now!

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 21/02/2019

HindSight Issue 28 is now available in print and online at SKYbrary and on the EUROCONTROL website. You can download the full issue, and individual articles. HindSight magazine is free and published twice a year, reaching tens of thousands of readers in aviation and other sectors worldwide.

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Work-as-Imagined Solutioneering: A 10-Step Guide

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 03/06/201805/10/2023

In this post, I outline a typical process of 10 Steps by which problematic solutions come into being. Some of the steps may be skipped, but with the same outcome: a problematic solution.

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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.

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