Occupational Overuse Syndrome – Human Error Variant (OOS-HEV) is a condition involving the overuse of the…
Tag: safety
Some time ago, I noticed the safety-fication of everything. I noticed that otherwise fairly ordinary words…
The comedian Bill Hicks died just over 20 years ago. He was not ‘just a comedian’.…
In Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian novel ‘Player Piano’, automation has replaced most human labour. Anything that…
This week, a EUROCONTROL Network Manager White Paper was released, entitled Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten…
How do organisations learn? It is fairly uncontroversial to say that we, as individuals and…
Almost a year ago on the safetydifferently blog, Sidney Dekker asked “Can safety renew itself?“.…
So, what do you do? If you work in a health and safety role, there…
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, there is a problem aboard Discovery One. The HAL 9000…
“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!”