Cool study which explored how AI affects a person’s metacognitive judgements. Thanks to Professor Erwin for sharing this. Tl;dr: · AI improved a user’s task performance – ‘AI makes you smarter’ · Despite improving performance, it resulted in large overestimation of a user’s abilities, e.g. they overestimated how well they performed; creating an illusion of knowledge –… Continue reading AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition
Australia’s national laws for worker psychological health: a policy evaluation and psychosocial safety climate analysis
This study explored changes in psychosocial safety climate (PSC) resulting from legislative changes in WHS psychosocial risk (among other things). Too much to cover, so a few extracts: · “Improving workers’ psychological health is an international priority” · “We assess organisational impact via changes in Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC)… and worker psychological distress” · “Findings show a positive… Continue reading Australia’s national laws for worker psychological health: a policy evaluation and psychosocial safety climate analysis
Safe As E52: Tapping into the semiotics of risk – workspace, headspace, groupspace
How can we move beyond simple workplace hazards towards tackling risk from psychological and cultural cues in the workplace? Today we unpack Rob Long’s Workspace / Headspace / Groupspace risk semiotic to help mature our thinking. Sources: Safety Engagement with Workspace, Headspace and Groupspace. Rob Long, 2021, SafetyRisk . net SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF RISK TOOLS… Continue reading Safe As E52: Tapping into the semiotics of risk – workspace, headspace, groupspace
Direct Controls / Alternative Controls for managing high-energy hazards: Energy-Based Safety
More extracts from Energy Based Safety – now focusing on Direct Controls & Alternative Controls (AC/DC): · “Not everything casually labeled a “control” effectively manages the boundary between high-energy and people” · “To reduce confusion, we define “energy controls” as physical measures that actively reduce or remove hazardous energy” · “Many safety measures, such as policies, plans, and… Continue reading Direct Controls / Alternative Controls for managing high-energy hazards: Energy-Based Safety
When Not Following Procedures Is a Safer Way: A Study on Selective Intentional Non-Compliance
This Lund thesis from Daniel Ankersø & Søren Nielsen was cool – they interviewed 39 European commercial pilots exploring procedural departures. Some extracts: · They coin a new term – Selective Intentional Non-Compliance (SINC) · SINC is “A purposeful and deliberate deviation from policies or procedures when a flight crew’s judgement is, that deviating from a procedure… Continue reading When Not Following Procedures Is a Safer Way: A Study on Selective Intentional Non-Compliance
When Can We Trust LLMs in Mental Health? Large-Scale Benchmarks for Reliable LLM Evaluation
This study explored how trustworthy AI LLM models are when used in mental health conversations, like giving advice, showing empathy and being safe. They built two large datasets – one with real therapy convos to test how AI responds, and another dataset with expert ratings on the responses. Extracts: · “Our analysis reveals systematic inflation by… Continue reading When Can We Trust LLMs in Mental Health? Large-Scale Benchmarks for Reliable LLM Evaluation
Safe As E51: The links between hazardous energy magnitude and injury severity
What are the links between the magnitude of the energy within hazard exposures on subsequent injury severity and death? Does more energy = higher chance of SIFs? Source: Hallowell, M. R., Alexander, D., & Gambatese, J. A. (2017). Energy-based safety risk assessment: Does magnitude and intensity of energy predict injury severity?. Construction management and economics, 35(1-2), 64-77.… Continue reading Safe As E51: The links between hazardous energy magnitude and injury severity
The Critical Role of Psychological Risk and Safety in Eliciting Worker Well-Being
This explored the links between psychosocial risk and psychological safety on worker well-being. Survey responses from >800 workers in Malaysian were obtained. Usefully, it’s another study that slightly challenges the claim that you ‘can’t have too much psychological safety’. We need far more targeted evidence to make that claim. Extracts: · “our results revealed a significant… Continue reading The Critical Role of Psychological Risk and Safety in Eliciting Worker Well-Being
Do Large Language Models Show Biases in Causal Learning? Insights from Contingency Judgment
This study found that LLMs inferred causality when no causal relationship existed in medical drug scenarios (‘illusion of causality’). They created 1000 medical drug scenarios, using scenarios which had either real causal relations between real drugs and real conditions, with made-up drugs or conditions, e.g. “Drizzlemorn disorder”. A causal illusion is something like “I take a… Continue reading Do Large Language Models Show Biases in Causal Learning? Insights from Contingency Judgment
Safe As E50: Ed Schein’s Humble Inquiry – “The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling” (quickisode)
This quickisode unpacks Ed Schein’s concept of Humble Inquiry – said to be the “gentle art of asking instead of telling”. Source: Schein, E. H. (2013). Humble inquiry: The gentle art of asking instead of telling. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VqPVyzc01SvWx2PL7mPhO?si=YGeB9fBxQjSmdGo_MmFbpg Shout me a coffee (one-off or monthly recurring)
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