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Seven Threats to New Safety Movements: 4) Dogmatism

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 01/11/202421/12/2024

Dogmatism is characterised by the expression of opinion as fact, or the tendency to assert…

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Seven Threats to New Safety Movements: 1) Over-commercialism

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 03/06/202421/12/2024

Over-commercialism has been a hallmark of many previous movements. Some started out with a distinct…

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Are We Learning From Accidents?

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 17/04/202424/05/2024

This is a Foreword to Are We Learning From Accidents, by Dr Nippin Anand, published…

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Humanistic Systems Collections: The Albums & EPs

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 12/10/202330/10/2025

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

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Twenty Five Years: Reflections on the Practice of Improving Work

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 06/11/202217/03/2023

In this post, I reflect on what I learned since graduating and have found to be most important to practice in the design and improvement of work.

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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

‘Human Factors’ and ‘Human Performance’: What’s the Difference?

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 24/04/201916/03/2023

The term ‘Human Performance’ (and ‘Human and Organisational Performance’ (or HOP) has become increasingly common…

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The Real Focus of Safety-II

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 09/10/201819/03/2023

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

Suitably Qualified and Experienced? Five Questions to Ask Before Buying Human Factors Training or Consultancy

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 05/06/201816/03/2023

Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

The Loneliest Profession in Healthcare

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 11/05/201805/10/2023

You’d expect that Human Factors/Ergonomics would be very relevant to the NHS. But is it actually integrated?

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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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    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. Work-as-analysed is the process and product of examination, decomposition, categorisation, modelling and representation of work. Work-as-measured is the quantification of aspects of work: the work that is represented through numbers, metrics, indicators, scores, targets, dashboards, and other forms of quantification. Work-as-observed is the observation of the work of others, formally or informally - directly, remotely, live, or recorded - and the interpretation of what is observed by the observer. Work-as-disclosed is the work that people say that they (or others) do or did, either in formal or informal accounts. Work-as-prescribed is the formalisation, specification and design of work. It is the work that people ‘should do’, especially according to policies, procedures, rules, and so on.

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