Top 40 Posts

Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 2. Factors of Humans32,198
The Varieties of Human Work22,349
Four Kinds of Human Factors: 3. Factors Affecting Humans20,958
‘Human Factors’ and ‘Human Performance’: What’s the difference?15,126
The HAL 9000 explanation: “It can only be attributable to human error”13,890
Never/zero thinking11,580
Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’: 1. The Human Factor11,000
‘Human error’: The handicap of human factors, safety and justice8,778
Empathy: A core condition for humanistic design8,334
Human Factors and Ergonomics: Looking Back to Look Forward7,392
The Archetypes of Human Work: 1. The Messy Reality6,990
Four Kinds of Human Factors: 4. Socio-Technical System Interaction6,615
What Human Factors isn’t: 1. Common Sense6,456
Proxies for Work-as-Done: 1. Work-as-Imagined6,193
Human Factors at The Oscars5,315
Why do we resist new thinking about safety and systems?5,242
Alarm design: From nuclear power to WebOps5,027
Mind your Mindset: Safety-I and Safety-II4,646
Four Kinds of Thinking: 2. Systems Thinking4,542
Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program4,223
Shorrock’s Law of Limits3,576
Toad’s Checklist3,550
How To Do Safety-II3,496
Target Culture: Lessons in Unintended Consequences3,476
‘Human error’: Still undefined after all these years3,455
Humanistic Systems Collections: The Albums & EPs3,344
The whole picture3,125
5th International Workshop on “Safety-II in Practice”:
Towards a Unified Approach to all Operations		3,108
Safety culture cards application: Exploring experiences using
Schein’s cycle		3,028
Suitably Qualified and Experienced? Five Questions to
Ask Before Buying Human Factors Training or Consultancy		2,826
The Loneliest Profession in Healthcare2,794
Work-as-Imagined Solutioneering: A 10-Step Guide2,661
Maslow’s Hammer: How Tools Bias Attention and Straightjacket Thinking2,629
The Archetypes of Human Work: 4. Ignorance and Fantasy2,601
What Human Factors Isn’t: 4. A Cause of Accidents2,594
Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles (A White Paper)2,569
Just Culture: Who Are We Really Afraid Of?2,547
“So You Have an Under-Reporting Problem?” System Barriers to
Incident Reporting		2,515
What Human Factors Isn’t: 3. Off-The-Shelf Behaviour
Modification Training		2,423
Safety-II and Just Culture: Where Now?2,410
Updated: 14 October 2023
Includes https://humanisticbydesign.blogspot.com