How does safety clutter–the accumulation of safety artefacts that don’t contribute to operational safety–distract attention and resources from more pressing matters? Can clutter, with best intentions, even contribute to elevated risk? Today’s paper is: Rae, A. J., Provan, D. J., Weber, D. E., & Dekker, S. W. (2018). Safety clutter: the accumulation and persistence of… Continue reading Safe As 57: Safety clutter – paper tigers and non-value adding work

This quickisode jumps into the Walk-Through Talk-Through technique, used to collaborate with workers and learn about the challenges and error traps with tasks, and how to improve. Source: Human Performance Oil & Gas. HPOG.org Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/50Iq5OMz1CSgJKAuyAGdCu?si=9Rmdo9ObQSOCfdi2szyFBQ Shout me a coffee (one-off or monthly recurring)

Extracts from Leslie Rex Stockel, PhD, CSP, SMP, FASSP’s article on misplaced safety practices and ethics of care: ·      “Approximately half a million dollars of annual salaries were sitting in the room spending at least an hour trying to decide … whether the case should be counted as an OSHA recordable case” ·      “This decision would impact… Continue reading Who Cares If It’s Recordable? How Misapplied Practices in OSHA Injury & Illness Recordkeeping Infringe on the Ethics of Care

This study explored the factors that shaped psychological safety: ·    “Team psychological safety is a perishable resource that can diminish as well as grow over time” ·    “Team psychological safety did not arise as a passive consequence of time spent together. Instead, it resulted from how teams actively spent their time and which processes they sustained” ·    “Time… Continue reading Time Is Not Enough: Exploring the Processes That Shape Team Psychological Safety

What if the paperwork that management come to rely on, rather than providing assurance of safe work methods, is more a ritual, disconnected from real work, or how people create safety in the field? What if, in some cases, this paperwork creates a false sense of safety and indeed, masquerades as a false butt covering… Continue reading Safe As E55: Butt-covering paperwork & false safety

Extracts from Gary Klein’s ‘Seeing What Others Don’t’, about how insights and intuitions emerge, or don’t. Based on cases examined by Klein: ·        Insights failed to emerge when some “fixated on some erroneous ideas that blinded them to the discovery” ·        “The strategy for the successful twins seemed to be to speculate and test, whereas the failure… Continue reading When insights do or don’t emerge – extracts from Gary Klein

An interesting Master’s thesis, which explored a novel concept: ‘synthetic psychological safety’. This is a “a state in which the outcomes of psychological safety … are present, but arise from the characteristics that constitute a fluid team rather than interpersonal depth … ‘assembled rather than grown”. Extracts: ·      “These [synthetic PS] behaviours do not stem from… Continue reading Uncovering Synthetic Psychological Safety