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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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Tag Archives: human performance
System Safety: Seven Friends of Explanation
In this short series, I highlight seven foes and seven friends of system safety, both for explanation and intervention. Each is a concept, meme, or device used in thinking, language, and intervention (reinforced by more fundamental foes that act as barriers … Continue reading
Posted in Human Factors/Ergonomics, Safety, systems thinking
Tagged ABCD, adjustments, assets, degraded system, goal conflicts, human performance, interactions, local rationality, patterns, performance adjustments, performance variability, systems thinking, trade-offs, work, work-as-done
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Four Kinds of Human Factors: 3. Factors Affecting Humans
This third post explores another perspective on ‘human factors’: Factors Affecting Humans. Continue reading
Posted in Human Factors/Ergonomics, Safety, systems thinking
Tagged ergonomics, human factors, human performance, safety, systems thinking, work
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Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 2. Factors of Humans
This second post in a series on Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’ explores another kind of human factors: Factors of Humans. Continue reading
Posted in Human Factors/Ergonomics
Tagged ergonomics, human error, human factors, human performance, psychology, work
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