This YT video from Johan Bergstrom is a great use of 7 minutes (link below). It covers three analytical traps in understanding incidents/investigations. I can’t do this video justice so just watch it. However, three traps are: 1. Counterfactual reasoning Johan notes that counterfactual reasoning is “when the investigator is discussing a case that never… Continue reading Analytical traps in accident investigations

This studied how the position of construction contractors in project communication networks is related to the quality of safety risk control measures (via hierarchy of control), with a focus on the involvement in pre-construction coordination between downstream project constructors with upstream designers. Network analysis was used to analyse 13 construction cases from 10 construction projects… Continue reading Exploring the link between early constructor involvement in project decision-making and the efficacy of health and safety risk control

ABSTRACT Purpose Accidents are more likely to occur during the morning hours of Mondays (Monday effect). This might be due to a higher level of cognitive failure on Monday morning at work. Methods In a pilot actigraphy study across one working week, we explored this Monday effect and regressed daily self-reported workplace cognitive failure on… Continue reading The Monday Effect Revisited: A Diary and Sleep Actigraphy Study

This discussion paper explored the conflicts between OHS management (OHSM) and operations management (OPM) from the perspectives of organisational logics. *** Note: I’ve skipped heaps of the points from the paper due to time/length, so consider below only a few key points. It’s said that safety performance in OHSM certified companies has been subjected to… Continue reading Occupational health and safety management and operations management: shall the twain never meet?

ABSTRACT Do temporary workers face more employment and earnings risk than direct-hire workers? We link administrative workers’ compensation claims to earnings records to measure the risk posed by workplace injuries, comparing employment and earnings outcomes between temporary and direct-hire workers injured doing the same job. We implement two complementary empirical strategies to account for underlying… Continue reading Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?

This explored the application of a framework for revealing and integrating S-I/S-II approaches in construction. I can’t cover the methods themselves, including the Resilient Performance Enhancement Toolkit (RPET), so I suggest reading the full paper or Googling it. Providing context, they argue that “Safety-II is arguably more important for highly complex socio-technical systems, in which… Continue reading Integrating Safety-I and Safety-II: Learning from failure and success in construction sites

ABSTRACT Although existing studies to date predominately focus on the beneficial effects of leader expressed humility on followers, knowledge about how those behaviors impact the leaders themselves is scarce. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we develop and test a model that specifies for whom and how expressing humility has detrimental effects on leaders’… Continue reading The Dark Side of Expressed Humility for Non-humble Leaders: A Conservation of Resources Perspective

This explored an understudied “dark side” of transformational leadership styles for leaders. That is, most research to date has focused on all of the positive facets of these leadership styles but rarely explored the impact these styles have on leaders themselves. Transformational leadership behaviours (TFL) have positive benefits for followers. TFL includes idealised influence (charismatic… Continue reading The Dark Side of Transformational Leader Behaviors for Leaders Themselves: A Conservation of Resources Perspective

ABSTRACT Employees’ engagement in safety is assumed to be a significant contributor to safety performance within the chemical industry. The current study tested this assumption by examining the role of prosocial safety behaviors (e.g., helping others) and proactive safety behaviors (e.g., seeking change) in predicting four safety performance outcomes: micro-accidents, property damage (accidents without injury),… Continue reading The role of prosocial and proactive safety behaviors in predicting safety performance

An interesting diagram from Saurin et al. of how the elements of complex sociotechnical systems (CSTSs) interact with guidelines for managing CSTSs. CSTSs are said to have: It’s remarked that “large number of dynamically interacting elements is an asset for resilience as it tends to provide more alternatives for the adjustment of performance” (p12), where… Continue reading Characteristics of complex socio-technical systems and guidelines for their management: The role of resilience