You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s done something stupid. She finds…
Tag: safety-II
There has been much talk in recent years about ‘never events’ and ‘zero harm’, similar to talk in the safety community about ‘zero accidents’. It sounds obvious: no one would want an accident. And we all wish that serious harm would not result from accidents. But as expressed and implemented top-down, never/zero is problematic for many reasons. In this post, I shall outline just a few, as I see them.
Again, a familiar smoke pattern has emerged from the ashes of a high-profile accident. The…
Following most major accidents, one phrase is almost guaranteed to headline in the popular press:…
During the last few years, different ways of thinking about safety have challenged prevailing worldviews…
This is a keynote address from Velocity Europe 2014 in Barcelona on 17 November. I…
Occupational Overuse Syndrome – Human Error Variant (OOS-HEV) is a condition involving the overuse of the…
OVER BLACK WE HEAR THE DULL SOUNDS OF INDUSTRY; A MUFFLED MASS OF MACHINES, GEARS, STEAM.…
When things go wrong, we seem to display a reliable tendency to do one thing:…
This week, a EUROCONTROL Network Manager White Paper was released, entitled Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten…
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