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What Are You Reading For?

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 12/10/201417/03/2023

The comedian Bill Hicks died just over 20 years ago. He was not ‘just a comedian’.…

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  • safety

If It Weren’t for the People…

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 04/10/201424/03/2023

In Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian novel ‘Player Piano’, automation has replaced most human labour. Anything that…

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  • safety

Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles (A White Paper)

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 27/09/201424/03/2023

This week, a EUROCONTROL Network Manager White Paper was released, entitled Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten…

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  • safety

Organisations and the Ghosts of Failures Past, Present and Yet to Come

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 02/04/201420/03/2023

How do organisations learn? It is fairly uncontroversial to say that we, as individuals and…

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  • safety

Six Thinking Hats for Safety

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 20/02/201419/03/2023

Almost a year ago on the safetydifferently blog, Sidney Dekker asked “Can safety renew itself?“.…

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Déformation Professionnelle: How Profession Distorts Perspective

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 12/12/201317/03/2023

So, what do you do? If you work in a health and safety role, there…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

The HAL 9000 Explanation: “It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error”

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 26/10/201310/03/2023

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, there is a problem aboard Discovery One. The HAL 9000…

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  • Human Factors/Ergonomics

‘Human error’: The Handicap of Human Factors, Safety and Justice

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 21/09/201310/03/2023

“Oh my God. I told those guys at safety that it was dangerous and one day we would lose concentration and pay for it. I already told those guys at safety that it was very dangerous! We are human and this can happen to us. This curve is inhuman!”

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  • Culture

Safety Culture Cards Application: Exploring Experiences Using Schein’s Cycle

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • Posted on 26/08/201324/04/2023

The safety culture discussion cards are now in use in a number of countries within…

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  • Culture

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

  • by Steven Shorrock
  • 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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Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice

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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. Work-as-observed is the observation of the work of others, formally or informally - directly, remotely, live, or recorded - and the interpretation of what is observed by the observer. Work-as-disclosed is the work that people say that they (or others) do or did, either in formal or informal accounts. Work-as-prescribed is the formalisation, specification and design of work. It is the work that people ‘should do’, especially according to policies, procedures, rules, and so on.

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