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This study explored the common sense approach (CSA) to safety on a large UK construction project via safety climate survey and ethnographic observations. Common sense was defined as the practical knowledge and judgement of workers based on long-term experience, training and experiential learning and being able to behave in sensible ways and make practical decisions.… Continue reading ‘You couldn’t finish the job without breaking the rules’: Common Sense Safety On A Large Construction Project

Some really interesting observations from Jop Havinga, Mohammed Ibrahim Shire and Drew Rae’s recent paper exploring the use of Take 5s in industry (link below). Too many things to cover but I found the attached points (images 1 & 2) pretty pertinent. They observed that while the “official” (work-as-imagined) view of Take 5s is that… Continue reading Take 5 and pre-start risk assessments

This explored the role IT plays in facilitating psychological safety in virtual teams compared between men and women. Providing background, it’s noted that: One study found that some individuals held back correct information on decision errors among their team during virtual meetings In online settings, men engaged in significantly more criticisms and oppositional views than… Continue reading Gender and psychological safety in virtual teams: the role of awareness types enabled by information technologies

This study compared adopters vs non-adopters of certified occupational health and safety management systems (COHSMSs) using cross-sectional survey data from >4k Danish workplaces. Five scales for process-related OHS efforts and seven scales for content-related OHS activities was used to score performance. Process-related OHS efforts are efforts to monitor workplaces and identify hazards and include things… Continue reading Differences in occupational health and safety efforts between adopters and non-adopters of certified occupational health and safety management systems

This evaluated the evidence for the use of wearable spinal posture systems which can provide live biofeedback in clinical practice. 37 studies met the inclusion requirements, which included wearable technology being able to monitor posture in the sagittal and/or coronal planes and published between 1980 and 2018. [I had this written/summarised for close to two… Continue reading The role of wearables in spinal posture analysis: a systematic review

For those in the throes of developing, reviewing or decluttering procedures then the model 1 / model 2 described by Hale and Borys (2013) may interest you (source below, but which originally drew on work from Sid Dekker). In short and to butcher a far more nuanced description but: model 1: sees rules as an… Continue reading Model 1 / model 2 view of rules and procedures

This explored psychological & neurophysiological mechanisms with hazard recognition among novice and experienced construction workers. 77 construction workers took part in a designed hazard recognition task where participants viewed a series of construction photos and judged whether a hazard was present. EEG (electroencephalography) and signal detection theory were used. In providing context, it’s said that… Continue reading Reinvestigation of the Psychological Mechanisms of Construction Experience on Hazard Recognition Performance

This looked at the development and use of a debriefing tool based on Safety-II concepts. I don’t have a lot to say about this one as it’s open access and it was mostly just briefly covering the initial piloting of the tool. As some background, the authors note their inspiration was to develop a tool… Continue reading Debrief it all: a tool for inclusion of Safety-II

This was an interesting brief discussion paper on automation transparency in the case of the tragic Boeing 737 Max 8 accidents. Note: I’ve skipped heaps – the full paper is worth reading. First they note that determining operator knowledge and feedback requirements in safety-critical sectors for joint human/machine interactions is necessary; called automation transparency. Automation… Continue reading The B737 MAX 8 Accidents as Operational Experiences With Automation Transparency

The below abstract was a short poster presentation from a team including Amy Edmondson. There’s nothing else to add (that I can find) besides what’s provided below. It’s interesting that the relationship between psychological safety and use of the incident reporting system was inverse: higher increases in psychological safety was linked with proportionally lower usage… Continue reading Incident Learning System Offers a Non-interpersonal Platform to Speak Up