How effective are leadership walkarounds for improving elements of safety? Can they backfire, and be more exercises of peacocking? E.g. Being seen, but not really caring. This ep unpacks these questions via several studies.
Author: Ben Hutchinson
Does higher diversity = higher firm performance?
How does diversity affect firm performance? And if so, which types of diversity impact performance the most? https://youtube.com/shorts/TdAoD6WEiY0
Circus of Safety video discussion about safety science, audits and more
I was recently on the Circus of Safety discussing a few topics – why not check it out? Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Hb1VfsDdDRkiDvVzQoVaJ?si=lHkVqdFOR_G8NaLUiZH4uA
Redefining health, risk, and safety for occupational settings: A mixed-methods study
What are your definitions of safety, health and risk? In this study Karanikas Haroun Zerguine collected answers from 55 participants in an Australian construction company. Shared under an Open Access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube channel – link in comments. First they identify a dozen or more definitions for each based on existing work: · For… Continue reading Redefining health, risk, and safety for occupational settings: A mixed-methods study
Is ‘safety’ the presence of capacities?
What is your definition of ‘safety’? For some, safety is defined as the presence of capacities. Here, Drew Rae discusses his thoughts, and scientific logics, of this definition. #safety #hse #risk #science #safetyscience #safetyii
How is AI changing the nature of work?
What can we learn about how AI changes work based on >180k GitHub users? Turns out, quite a lot. AI induces people to shift task allocation towards their core work and away from non-core, project management activities. #ai #chatgpt #github #work #llm #artificialintelligence
How People Understand Risk Matrices, and How Matrix Design Can Improve their Use: Findings from Randomized Controlled Studies
How can we make risk matrices marginally more interpretable? This study ran two experiments by changing the structure. I’ve skipped heaps due to laziness. PS. Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@safe_as_pod Extracts: · They discuss the use of logarithmically increasing RM categories, which allows a comparison between risks that span several orders of magnitude · But, even… Continue reading How People Understand Risk Matrices, and How Matrix Design Can Improve their Use: Findings from Randomized Controlled Studies
Safer Systems: People Training or System Tuning?
Hollnagel discusses the role of training in complex systems. Shared under open access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube channel: Safe As: A thrifty analysis of safety, AI and risk – YouTube Extracts:· “Safety is usually seen as a problem when it is absent rather than when it is present, where accidents, incidents, and the like… Continue reading Safer Systems: People Training or System Tuning?
Does using AI make us smarter, or just more confident?
Does using AI make us smarter, or just more confident? This ep covers a recent study on how generative AI affects our “metacognition” – our ability to judge our own performance. Researchers tracked hundreds of people solving logical reasoning problems with and without AI.
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