Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
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I’m asked many, many times this question: “how do workers make decisions?” And, I decided I’ll answer that with a brief … Learn more >>>>>
I always find it fascinating when there is an increase in safety statistics or incidents that the call is always about greater vigilance, more checklists, more policing and more effort. What an amazing industry that still doesn’t know why things go wrong.
Rather than question the fundamental flaws in … Learn more >>>>>
The issue of complacency is a preoccupation of the risk and safety industry yet one can find little research in the sector beyond the excessive use of the label.
It seems once we have declared something as ‘complacency’ we somehow know what has occurred. Usually … Learn more >>>>>
The concept of ‘chronic unease’ has been about in safety for some time. It was unfortunately put forward by Reason as a mindset to tackle complacency. Complacency is rarely well defined and is most associated with: in-alertness, lethargy, laziness, not being careful, inattentiveness, lack … Learn more >>>>>
One of the cultural characteristics of the safety industry is fundamental attribution error . It seems that safety seeks blame before it breathes, you certainly need to if your job title includes zero.
Whenever there is an event in comes safety to quickly ensure that everyone … Learn more >>>>>
