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Seven Threats to New Safety Movements

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

Many of us find ourselves in several communities when it comes to our professional work.…

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  • Culture

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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  • Culture

The Commodification of Human Decency

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 22/10/202027/03/2023

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

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

What Human Factors Isn’t: 2. Courtesy and Civility at Work

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 18/09/201913/03/2023

‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

The Problem with Professional Appropriation: The Case of ‘Human Factors’ and ‘Ergonomics’

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 08/10/201816/03/2023

In a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper by journalist Liam Mannix (A…

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The Safety-fication of Everything

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 05/11/201417/03/2023

Some time ago, I noticed the safety-fication of everything. I noticed that otherwise fairly ordinary words…

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  • safety

What Are You Reading For?

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 12/10/201417/03/2023

The comedian Bill Hicks died just over 20 years ago. He was not ‘just a comedian’.…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Human Factors Research and Practice – Part 2: Bridging the Gap

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 10/03/201217/03/2023

This article by Steve Shorrock and Amy Chung was published in The Ergonomist (newsletter of…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Human Factors Research and Practice – Part 1: Surveying the Gap

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 10/03/201217/03/2023

This article by Steve Shorrock and Amy Chung was published in The Ergonomist (newsletter of…

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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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