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How To Do Safety-II

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 03/11/201913/01/2022

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

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What are you reading for?

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/10/201409/12/2020

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

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Reading on the job: fatigue, boredom and distraction while underloaded

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 17/07/201213/10/2014

I have received a few queries asking for a view (or “the science”) on reading…

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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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