One way to understand the links between unwanted events, conditions and interventions is via causal…
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Reporting behaviour associated with safety-related accidents, incidents, and hazards is a concern for many managers,…
Healthcare is perhaps the most complex safety-critical sector, and the challenges have only increased throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasingly, human and organisational factors have come under the spotlight. Manoj Kumar is a consultant general surgeon with a background also in safety, human factors, and training. In this conversation with Steven Shorrock, Manoj provides insights and perspectives on the realities of work in healthcare, and the team’s role in improvement.
On major projects, some surprises unfold slowly via ‘work-as-imagined solutioneering’. Based on observations in several industries, Steven Shorrock presents ten traps that we can all fall into.
This article is a reproduction of the Editorial published in HindSight magazine issue 34 in…
A legendary rivalry: one mountain and two climbers seeking to be the best. We join…
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.
“If only it weren’t for the managers, the goddamned managers, always getting tangled up in the…
Most of us in democratic countries would hate to see the rise authoritarianism. When we…
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