Top 40 Posts

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1. Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 2. Factors of Humans36434
2. The Varieties of Human Work30507
3. Four Kinds of Human Factors: 3. Factors Affecting Humans22685
4. ‘Human Factors’ and ‘Human Performance’: What’s the difference?19123
5. The HAL 9000 explanation: “It can only be attributable to human error”16042
6. Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 1. The Human Factor12353
7. Never/Zero Thinking12353
8. Human Factors and Ergonomics: Looking Back to Look Forward9992
9. ‘Human error’: The Handicap of Human Factors, Safety and Justice9418
10. Empathy: A core condition for humanistic design9003
11. Proxies for Work-as-Done: 1. Work-as-Imagined8782
12. The Archetypes of Human Work: 1. The Messy Reality8668
13. Four Kinds of Human Factors: 4. Socio-Technical System Interaction8403
14. Four Kinds Of Thinking: 1. Humanistic Thinking7349
15. What Human Factors isn’t: 1. Common Sense7227
16. Four Kinds of Thinking: 2. Systems Thinking6520
17. Mind your Mindset: Safety-I and Safety-II6127
18. Why do we resist new thinking about safety and systems?5772
19. Alarm design: From nuclear power to WebOps5564
20. Human Factors at The Oscars5458
21. Humanistic Systems Collections: The Albums & EPs4843
22. “Why Aren’t They Reporting Incidents?” Influences on Reporting Behaviour4775
23. Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program4341
24. Toad’s Checklist4316
25. ‘Human Error’: Still Undefined After All These Years4061
26. “Why Are We Having More Incidents?” Causal Loops in Reactions to Unwanted Events3865
27. Target Culture: Lessons in Unintended Consequences3842
28. Shorrock’s Law of Limits3774
29. How To Do Safety-II3765
30. The Whole Picture3556
31. Safety Culture Cards Application: Exploring Experiences Using Schein’s Cycle3405
32. 5th International Workshop on “Safety-II in Practice”:
Towards a Unified Approach to all Operations
3297
33. Work-as-Imagined Solutioneering: A 10-Step Guide3153
34. Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles (A White Paper)3107
35. The Loneliest Profession in Healthcare3093
36. Suitably Qualified and Experienced? Five Questions to
Ask Before Buying Human Factors Training or Consultancy
3088
37. The Archetypes of Human Work: 4. Ignorance and Fantasy3069
38. “So You Have an Under-Reporting Problem?” System Barriers to Incident Reporting3049
39. Just Culture: Who Are We Really Afraid Of?2930
40. Maslow’s Hammer: How Tools Bias Attention and Straightjacket Thinking2839
Updated: 29 October 2025
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