This is the fourth in a series of posts on different ‘kinds’ of human factors, as understood both within and outside the discipline and profession of human factors and ergonomics itself. This post explores a fourth kind of human factors: Socio-technical system interaction.
Tag: safety
This third post explores another perspective on ‘human factors’: Factors Affecting Humans.
It was always going to happen. The wrong Best Picture winner was read out live on…
The analysis of work cannot be limited to work as prescribed in procedures etc (le travail prescrit), nor to the observation of work actually done (le travail réalisé). Similarly, it cannot be limited to work as we imagine it, nor work as people talk about it. Only by considering all four of these varieties of human work can we hope to understand what’s going on.
When we think about just culture, we usually think about accidents and incidents, associated ‘honest…
Nuclear Family is a gripping piece of interactive theatre which follows Joe and Ellen, nuclear…
Written and directed by Matthew Wilkinson. A thrilling modern tragedy about a Russian architect driven…
There have been many debates in human factors about its status as science or art…
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.
Following most major accidents, one phrase is almost guaranteed to headline in the popular press:…
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