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People in Control: A Conversation With Captain James Burnell

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 30/10/202530/10/2025

Aviation is heavily reliant on procedures, but procedures can never replace human adaptivity in all…

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  • safety

“Why Are We Having More Incidents?” Causal Loops in Reactions to Unwanted Events

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 29/01/202427/05/2024

One way to understand the links between unwanted events, conditions and interventions is via causal…

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  • safety

Why Is It Just So Difficult? Barriers to ‘Just Culture’ in the Real World

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 18/10/202330/10/2025

This article is a reproduction of an article published in HindSight magazine issue 35 in September 2023 (all issues available…

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  • safety

HindSight 35: Just Culture…Revisited is out now

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 14/10/2023

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

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Work-As-Imagined Solutioneering: Ten Traps Along the Yellow Brick Road

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 03/03/202324/02/2025

On major projects, some surprises unfold slowly via ‘work-as-imagined solutioneering’. Based on observations in several industries, Steven Shorrock presents ten traps that we can all fall into.

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  • Systems Thinking

Shorrock’s Law of Limits

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 24/10/201924/03/2023

“When you put a limit on a measure, if that measure relates to efficiency, the limit will be used as a target.”

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This blog is written by Dr Steven Shorrock. I work as an transdisciplinary humanistic-systems practitioner in safety critical industries. I blog in a personal capacity. Views expressed here are mine and not those of any affiliated organisation.

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