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Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety

June 30, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety Great to read a piece on the Safety Differently site that situates systems within a social and societal context (Thinking Differently about incident investigations). One of the strange things about the tradition of safety is its maintenance of the myth of … [Read more...] about Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: icam, root cause, safety differently, thinking, tradition

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