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HindSight 34: Handling Surprises (Tales of the Unexpected) is out now

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 26/01/202326/01/2023

HindSight is a magazine on human and organisational factors in operations. HindSight magazine is free…

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Getting a Handle on Three Zones of Performance

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 30/12/202202/01/2023

Reflections on what distinguishes the three zones of performance in the well-known graph associated with Safety-II.

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The Real Focus of Safety-II

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 09/10/201805/03/2021

Safety-II has become a talking point. It is discussed not only among safety professionals, but – perhaps more importantly – among front line practitioners, managers, board members and regulators in a wide array of industries. But what is the real focus of Safety-II?

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Work and how to survive it: Lesson 2. Understand variation inside your organisation

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 01/10/201805/02/2019

In this sporadic series of posts, I share a few insights, as they might apply to work and organisations, from ‘Life and How To Survive It’ and ‘Families and How to Survive Them’, by psychotherapist (late) Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese.

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Work and how to survive it: Lesson 1. Understand ‘how work goes’

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 29/09/201819/01/2019

In this sporadic series of posts, Icshare a few insights, as they might apply to work and organisations, from ‘Life and How To Survive It’ and ‘Families and How to Survive Them’, by psychotherapist (late) Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese.

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About the Author

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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Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice

'Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice' concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts. Buy direct from Routledge.

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Top Posts

  • The Varieties of Human Work
  • Getting a Handle on Three Zones of Performance
  • The HAL 9000 explanation: "It can only be attributable to human error"
  • 'Human Factors' and 'Human Performance': What's the difference?
  • Shorrock’s Law of Limits
  • Surprises, Fast and Slow: Preparing for the Limits of Work-as-Imagined
  • Proxies for Work-as-Done: 1. Work-as-Imagined
  • Four Kinds of Thinking: 2. Systems Thinking
  • The Archetypes of Human Work: 1. The Messy Reality
  • Four Kinds of Human Factors: 3. Factors Affecting Humans

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