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People in Control: A Conversation With Captain James Burnell

  • by stevenshorrock
  • 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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  • Systems Thinking

“Why Aren’t They Reporting Incidents?” Influences on Reporting Behaviour

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 17/11/202330/10/2025

Reporting behaviour associated with safety-related accidents, incidents, and hazards is a concern for many managers,…

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HindSight 35: Just Culture…Revisited is out now

  • by stevenshorrock
  • 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

Proxies for Work-as-Done: 3. Work-as-Disclosed

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 01/11/202030/10/2025

In this series of short posts, I outline some of proxies for work-as-done. This post concerns work-as-disclosed.

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“So You Have an Under-Reporting Problem?” System Barriers to Incident Reporting

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 07/02/201309/08/2023

The reporting of safety occurrences and safety-relevant issues and conditions is an essential activity in…

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Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in understanding and improving work and life.

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) | Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF) | BSc (Hons) MSc (Eng) PhD

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Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice

'Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice' concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts. Buy direct from Routledge.

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  • Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 2. Factors of Humans
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  • Four Kinds of Thinking: 2. Systems Thinking
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  • Why Is It Just So Difficult? Barriers to ‘Just Culture’ in the Real World
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  • HindSight 34: Handling Surprises (Tales of the Unexpected) is out now
  • Proxies for Work-as-Done: 1. Work-as-Imagined

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