Many of us find ourselves in several communities when it comes to our professional work.…
Tag: safety culture
The post discusses a short fictional film, ‘The Wrong Kidney’, created to explore the complexities…
Reporting behaviour associated with safety-related accidents, incidents, and hazards is a concern for many managers,…
Since I starting blogging, I have written posts on a range of topics concerning work…
Sometimes in our working lives, we have to make decisions that involve a kind of…
In this short series, I will highlight seven foes and seven friends of system safety, both for explanation and intervention. Each is a concept, meme, or device used in thinking, language, and intervention (reinforced by more fundamental foes that act as barriers to thinking). They are not the only foes or friends, of course, but they are significant ones that either crop up regularly in discussions and writings about safety, or else – in the case of friends – should do.
Learning Teams, Learning from Communities
In this article, I refer to some of the ideas and writings of asset-based community development to reflect on Learning Teams in health and safety, and small group conversations and action more generally in organisations. I highlight four lessons from ABCD for learning teams and host organisations.
It was always going to happen. The wrong Best Picture winner was read out live on…
OVER BLACK WE HEAR THE DULL SOUNDS OF INDUSTRY; A MUFFLED MASS OF MACHINES, GEARS, STEAM.…
How do organisations learn? It is fairly uncontroversial to say that we, as individuals and…