Just Get to the Bottom of it….. Republished by request………. An incident occurs at work, the well entrenched procedures quickly kick into play – first aid provided, forms filled in, reports to management, find the cause (sometimes causes), change operating procedures (they must have been wrong), issue Safety Alert and conduct Toolbox Talk, include information […]
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SEEK is not a Method
You can find out more about the SEEK workshop in Brisbane to be held in November here: https://safetyrisk.net/essentials-in-investigations/ and download the SEEK flyer here: http://cart.humandymensions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SEEK-Brisbane-91011-Nov-2016-2.pdf SEEK is not a Method When one looks at popular ‘methods’ of investigation often you will find that underlying values, ethics and philosophy are not made clear. The focus is […]
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The Social Psychology of Risk Event Exploration (Investigation) Knowledge
I can personally recommend this program (no I don’t get a kickback!) to anyone wanting to undertake more effective investigations and who feels that there is something crucial missing with their current methods and tools – I PROMISE THAT THIS IS A COMPLETE EYE & MIND OPENER – I wrote about a small component of […]
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A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations
A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations I’ve recently seen and done a few incident investigations which really fell short of any mark except for ticking the box on the form that says ‘investigation completed’. There are ongoing debates about whether ICAM is better than TapRoot or if that is better than Root […]
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Nobody Ever Said Safety Would Be Easy
First published here on Phil LaDuke’s Blog Phil says: In safety we are surrounded by people who are looking for simple solutions to complex problems and often these people include safety professionals themselves. In this months post I look at applying Occam’s Razor (The simplest explanation is usually the correct one) to incident investigation and […]
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Situational Awareness and Human Error
Situational Awareness and Human Error An interesting article by Sidney Dekker on the Safety Differently Blog: Is It 1947 Yet? Neither Lieutenant Nathan Poloski’s body, nor his F/A-18 Hornet were ever found in waters almost three miles deep. All that was located in the Western Pacific after his fighter jet collided with another from the […]
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We need to make sure this can never happen again
We need to make sure this can never happen again Can you picture this scenario? Manager: So Ben, I’ve just read through the incident report and I see you injured your back when you ran the forklift into the bollard. I need to ask you a few questions as we need to make sure this […]
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Dealing with Incidents
Dealing with Incidents Most approaches to incident investigation focus on technique and process. This is important, gathering facts and compiling important information is critical. However, what most approaches don’t consider the range of biases that come with being human. In particular, it is crucial to understand and be mindful of hindsight bias. As soon as […]
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Why we make mistakes
Oops, I didn’t mean to do that – Why we make mistakes Fassinating artickle by Rob Sams (see his previus posts here). The first 3 people to email me and tell me why I chose this image for this article will win a free copy of Dr Rob Long’s latest book REAL RISK – Human […]
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My Simplistic View on Accident Cause, Investigation and Prevention
My Simplistic View on Accident Factors, Investigation and Prevention – Works for me! Reading all the articles on blogs and comments on various posts on Linkedin it seems that we all agree to disagree on most things and that is pretty healthy as long as we keep debating and keep an open mind. I really […]
