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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Surprises, Fast and Slow: Preparing for the Limits of Work-as-Imagined

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 30/01/202330/01/2023

This article is a reproduction of the Editorial published in HindSight magazine issue 34 in…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

HindSight 34: Handling Surprises (Tales of the Unexpected) is out now

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 26/01/202326/01/2023

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

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Getting a Handle on Three Zones of Performance

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 30/12/202202/01/2023

Reflections on what distinguishes the three zones of performance in the well-known graph associated with Safety-II.

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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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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

What Human Factors isn’t: 4. A Cause of Accidents

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 01/10/201901/10/2019

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

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Learning Teams, Learning from Communities

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 13/01/201913/01/2022

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.

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The Real Focus of Safety-II

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 09/10/201805/03/2021

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

Work and how to survive it: Lesson 2. Understand variation inside your organisation

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 01/10/201805/02/2019

In this sporadic series of posts, I share a few insights, as they might apply to work and organisations, from ‘Life and How To Survive It’ and ‘Families and How to Survive Them’, by psychotherapist (late) Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese.

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Work and how to survive it: Lesson 1. Understand ‘how work goes’

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 29/09/201819/01/2019

In this sporadic series of posts, Icshare a few insights, as they might apply to work and organisations, from ‘Life and How To Survive It’ and ‘Families and How to Survive Them’, by psychotherapist (late) Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese.

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Human Factors at the Fringe: BaseCamp

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/08/201804/08/2018

A legendary rivalry: one mountain and two climbers seeking to be the best. We join…

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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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