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Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/07/201420/03/2023

Most of us in democratic countries would hate to see the rise authoritarianism. When we…

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  • Safety

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

  • by stevenshorrock
  • 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

Safety-II as Disruptive Innovation

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 08/03/201419/03/2023

The field of safety management has operated within the same paradigm for decades: finding and…

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Seven Questions on Safety-II: Ensuring Things Go Right

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/03/201419/03/2023

This post is an article that was published in The Ergonomist: Newsletter of the Institute…

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  • Safety

Six Thinking Hats for Safety

  • by stevenshorrock
  • 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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  • Culture

The Principles of Punk Rock at Work

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 05/10/201320/03/2023

About the time I was born, a new musical genre emerged. Disillusioned with the rock…

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  • Systems Thinking

Target Culture: Lessons in Unintended Consequences

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 02/07/201324/03/2023

By Steven Shorrock & Tony Licu The text in this article first appeared in HindSight…

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Goats in Sheep Pens

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 26/06/201320/03/2023

When I was younger, my family had a smallholding with a few animals including chickens, ducks,…

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Why Do We Resist New Thinking About Safety and Systems?

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/04/201324/03/2023

Something I have been thinking about for a while is the way that we look…

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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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