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Just culture vs blame culture / restorative culture vs retributive culture / learning culture, informed culture / restorative justice, blame logics, retributive logics and more. There’s been a bit of talk lately about restorative and retributive logics and associated topics. I think it’s an opportune time to re-post Sid Dekker’s restorative just culture checklist (image… Continue reading Restorative Just Culture Checklist

This paper covered a resilience engineering-based framework for assessing Safety Performance Measurement Systems (SPMS). They used the TOE (Technical, Organisational, Environment) framework, four RE resilience abilities (monitor, anticipate, respond, learn) and the Resilience Assessment Grid as applied to construction projects via observations, document analysis and interviews. SPMSs are sub-systems of safety management systems and detail… Continue reading A resilience engineering-based framework for assessing safety performance measurement systems: A study in the construction industry

ABSTRACT The causes of workplace deviance are of increasing interest to organizations. We integrate psychological and neurocognitive perspectives to examine the effects of sleep deprivation on workplace deviance. Utilizing self-regulatory resource theories, we argue that sleep deprivation decreases individuals’ self-control while increasing hostility, resulting in increased workplace deviance. We test our hypotheses using two samples:… Continue reading Examining the effects of sleep deprivation on workplace deviance: A self-regulatory perspective

This evaluated the effectiveness of workplace interventions in improving workplace safety culture (SC) survey performance; 23 studies were included. They also describe the types of interventions used and their influence on the outcomes. [Biases on the table: I’m pretty critical of the concept of “safety culture”, but I’ll do my best to stick to the… Continue reading Evaluating the effectiveness of workplace interventions in improving safety culture: A systematic review

ABSTRACT Study Objectives The amount of recovery sleep needed to fully restore well-established neurobehavioral deficits from sleep loss remains unknown, as does whether the recovery pattern differs across measures after total sleep deprivation (TSD) and chronic sleep restriction (SR). Methods In total, 83 adults received two baseline nights (10–12-hour time in bed [TIB]) followed by… Continue reading Residual, differential neurobehavioral deficits linger after multiple recovery nights following chronic sleep restriction or acute total sleep deprivation

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?