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A comprehensive systematic review of safety leading indicators in construction

Are your indicators measuring ‘safety’, or more often activity? This systematic review evaluated 51 studies, unpacking indicator themes, trends & their effectiveness in construction. Shared under an open access licence. PS. Did you check out my video on better indicators? Link in comments – it unpacks how to identify & set measures around your risk…

Safety concepts through a memetic lens

Why do some safety concepts spread while others become lost in time, like tears in rain? [** Cue wicked synthwave bladerunner tune] Anyway, this article from @carsten busch and colleagues explores the history of the accident triangle “over nearly a century through successive cycles of replication, variation, and selection”. It’s explored via memetics. Shared under…

Dr Steven Shorrock Part 1: Is HOP actually ‘new’ or built on Human Factors?

“There’s nothing new [in the HOP principles] since the 1980s there” Part 1 interview with Dr Steven Shorrock 🌻. He’s worked for about 30 years as a psychologist and human factors engineer in aviation, air traffic management, rail, healthcare and chemical manufacturing. Steven questions how much of HOP and the ‘new view’ really comes from…

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