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

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 30/01/202331/03/2023

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 Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 26/01/202305/10/2023

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

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  • safety

Getting a Handle on Three Zones of Performance

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 30/12/202227/05/2024

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 Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 03/11/201919/03/2023

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 Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 01/10/201913/03/2023

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

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  • safety

Learning Teams, Learning from Communities

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 13/01/201930/10/2025

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 Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 09/10/201819/03/2023

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 Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 01/10/201828/02/2023

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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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

Work and How to Survive It: Lesson 1. Understand ‘How Work Goes’

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 29/09/201828/02/2023

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/Ergonomics

Human Factors at the Fringe: BaseCamp

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 04/08/201821/03/2023

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

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    Work-as-done is the work that people actually do, cognitive, verbal and manually. Work-as-judged is the judgement, evaluation or appraisal of work, via other proxies for work-as-done. Work-as-simulated is the work that is imitated or recreated in some way for the purposes of learning, testing, design, research, assessment, or exploration. Work-as-instructed is the explanation and demonstration describing how work is to be conducted or performed; the work that people are taught to do. Work-as-analysed is the process and product of examination, decomposition, categorisation, modelling and representation of work. Work-as-measured is the quantification of aspects of work: the work that is represented through numbers, metrics, indicators, scores, targets, dashboards, and other forms of quantification.

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