Humanistic Systems Collections: The Albums & EPs

Since I starting blogging, I have written posts on a range of topics concerning work…

The Commodification of Human Decency

Many ideas spring up in the world of management and organisational behaviour aimed at ‘treating…

How To Do Safety-II

Safety-II, its cousin Resilience Engineering (and offshoots such as resilient healthcare), as well as predecessor…

System Safety: Seven Friends of Intervention

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 to thinking).  They are not the only foes or friends, of course, but they are significant ones that either crop up regularly in discussions and writings about safety, or else – in the case of friends – should do. In this post, I outline seven friends of intervention.

Safety Culture Cards Application: Exploring Experiences Using Schein’s Cycle

The safety culture discussion cards are now in use in a number of countries within…

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

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

Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards to Help Understand Textual Data

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

Safety Culture in Your Hands

(This article featured in The Controller – Journal of Air Traffic Control, April 2012.) by…