Safe AF pod ep #3 now live! How well can Learning Teams function against more traditional Root Cause Analysis techniques? What things do they focus on, what fixes result from the learning activities? Does one focus more on blame and individuals? Today we explore a paper by Robbins et al., 2021, comparing Learning Teams vs… Continue reading Safe AF ep #3: Learning Teams vs Root Cause Analyses (+ transcript)
Year: 2025
Leader and subordinate perceptions impact different elements of safety reporting
This study investigated the leader-subordinate relationships and how it impacts safety underreporting, near misses, and actual safety incident reporting. >11k US Navy personnel were surveyed. Background: · “maintaining a positive safety climate can be complicated by the sheer number of influences involved, such as the wider organizational climate [6] or individual factors such as sleep… Continue reading Leader and subordinate perceptions impact different elements of safety reporting
Safe AF ep 2 live (just 8.5 mins): SIFs vs non-SIFs + transcript
Safe AF episode 2 live! Only 8.5 mins, so check it out. Are the contributing and causal factors similar between Severe Incidents & Fatalities (SIFs) and non-SIFs? Will addressing the minor potential, low-energy hazards help prevent the major potential hazards? Today we explore a paper by Bayona et al. 2024 investigating these questions. Links below.… Continue reading Safe AF ep 2 live (just 8.5 mins): SIFs vs non-SIFs + transcript
Ergonomics & Human factors: fade of a discipline
This commentary from de Winter and Eisma argues that Human Factors & Ergonomics (HFE) may be “losing credibility” and significance. Despite claims about being a thriving science, it’s argued that the discipline may be at risk of slowly fading because of some of these challenges. This paper had several follow-up articles and rebuttals from other… Continue reading Ergonomics & Human factors: fade of a discipline
Insidious Safety Threat of Fatigue: Investigating Construction Workers’ Risk of Accident Due to Fatigue
This was really interesting. It studied the impact of self-assessed fatigue on hazard recognition and safety risk perception in construction. Fatigue is a ubiquitous phenomenon and among construction workers is said to be no different. It’s been implicated in a range of safety and performance implications. 135 construction workers were recruited to participate in the… Continue reading Insidious Safety Threat of Fatigue: Investigating Construction Workers’ Risk of Accident Due to Fatigue
A new perspective on blame culture: an experimental study
This study explored how fear of blame and punishment affects different healthcare professions, experience levels and gender. 249 healthcare practitioners were involved, and were asked how fear of blame or punishment resulting from an error which caused no, mild, severe or death of a patient. Extracts: · “blame culture can be defined as a set of… Continue reading A new perspective on blame culture: an experimental study
“Indicators are partial reflections of reality, based on uncertain and imperfect models” – Part 2 Donella Meadows sustainable indicators
Part 2 of Meadow’s banger ‘Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development’. Extracts: · “Indicators are partial reflections of reality, based on uncertain and imperfect models” · “The stock market price is not the value of the company. No indicator is the real system. Indicators are abstractions from systems” · And are “are abstractions from abstractions, from models,… Continue reading “Indicators are partial reflections of reality, based on uncertain and imperfect models” – Part 2 Donella Meadows sustainable indicators
Safe AF ep 1: Do the vast majority of worker-experienced incidents go unreported? + transcript
Resharing that ep #1 of my new podcast Safe AF is now live. This episode explores the extent of accident underreporting – some research suggests that up to 80% of the incidents that workers experience go unreported. You can find the pod on Spotify, Apple and I think Amazon. Direct link below: https://lnkd.in/gTru4sR3 If you… Continue reading Safe AF ep 1: Do the vast majority of worker-experienced incidents go unreported? + transcript
First episode Safe AF Podcast now live: Accident underreporting and trusting our statistics
First ep of Safe AF Podcast now live! This explores the extent of accident underreporting, and how much we should trust our statistics. Available on Spotify and Apple, and hopefully Amazon etc. – direct access here: Throw your comments, experiences, anecdotes and violent objections into this LinkedIn post or Spotify, and via the magic of… Continue reading First episode Safe AF Podcast now live: Accident underreporting and trusting our statistics
Decluttering Safety: A Multistakeholder Approach to Enhancing Safety Management in Construction
This study from Lingard and colleagues studied the types, causes and perceived consequences of safety clutter. Sample was interviews with 18 construction industry participants. For background: · First they argue that “Contemporary safety management systems have been criticised for being impractical, duplicative, ill-fitting, excessive, wasteful, and ineffective”. · Others argue that SMSs are “characterised by… Continue reading Decluttering Safety: A Multistakeholder Approach to Enhancing Safety Management in Construction
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