Does bullying impact Learning From Incidents (LFI) in construction? This interesting study explored bullying as an institutionalised governance mechanism, studying how it affects learning from incidents and safety voice. A key concept is silence. Data was from 215 questionnaires. PS. Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@safe_as_pod. Extracts: · Studies show that LFI is “often constrained by… Continue reading The silent transmission belt: testing safety bullying’s indirect effects on construction incident learning failures via voice suppression
Where you live is killing you
Does living closer to a major road make you sicker? It turns out that the closer you live to busy roads, the worse are your health prospects for cardiovascular disease, respiratory, disease, birth defects and more.
How can we improve our investigations? #lazyrepost
Do your investigations suck? Or looking for tweaks to drive learning and improvement? #lazyrepost In this recording, I covered studies highlighting common traps & limitations of investigations, e.g.: 1. How worldviews and context shapes what you find and construct 2. Delusional clarity and effects of hindsight/outcome bias 3. Local rationality 4. Investigator biases and influences… Continue reading How can we improve our investigations? #lazyrepost
The effects of different types of organisational workplace mental health interventions on mental health and wellbeing in healthcare workers: a systematic review
This systematic review unpacked 22 studies to understand the effects of organisational mental health interventions on healthcare workers’ mental health and wellbeing. Shared under an Open Access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@safe_as_pod Extracts: · Interventions included flexible and better designed schedules, redesigned work processes and competency training, team-building and civility initiatives, participatory workplace-change… Continue reading The effects of different types of organisational workplace mental health interventions on mental health and wellbeing in healthcare workers: a systematic review
Making better decisions and injecting hold-points for debiasing
How can we improve big decisions in organisations, and inject hold-points for debiasing? This video frantically covers an article from Daniel Kahneman and colleagues on just this very topic. #decisionmaking #bias #judgements
Tuning into whispered frequencies: Harnessing Large Language Models to detect Weak Signals in complex socio-technical systems
This study evaluated whether LLMs can support a scaled and systematic analysis of surveyed data about worker adaptive practices, to foster weak signal ID. E.g. can LLMs help identify weak signals from large-scale data. In this case, textual data describing frontline personnel adaptive behaviours during everyday operations. This was obtained via survey. PS. Check out… Continue reading Tuning into whispered frequencies: Harnessing Large Language Models to detect Weak Signals in complex socio-technical systems
How Safety Science Can Be Strengthened by Clarifying Its Foundation and Increasing Its Interaction With Risk Science
This article from Terje Aven discusses some limitations within the Safety Science (SS) field, and argues for its better interaction, or even its subsummation within Risk Science. Not a summary per se – but several extracts posted below. PS. Check out my YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@safe_as_pod Extracts: · There is currently “no authoritative accepted definition of safety… Continue reading How Safety Science Can Be Strengthened by Clarifying Its Foundation and Increasing Its Interaction With Risk Science
Why do leaders make terrible decisions? 12 questions to debias decisions
Our mental shortcuts (heuristics) serve us well. They help us navigate a complex, ambiguous world normally safely and efficiently. But in modern organisations, they can sometimes lead us astray – via biases. In this context, biases are systematic distortions away from an expected decision or judgement. This article from Daniel Kahneman and colleagues, unpack some… Continue reading Why do leaders make terrible decisions? 12 questions to debias decisions
When Managers Stay, Workers Are Safer: Rethinking the Value of Firm-Specific Human Capital
Does increasing manager retention and/or firm-specific capital improve reported incident data? This study analysed 16 years of data from >19k US firms. Note the various limitations, including human capital was evaluated indirectly via tenure, which was informed via some US law that aimed to limit managers changing companies, due to sharing company secrets. PS. Check… Continue reading When Managers Stay, Workers Are Safer: Rethinking the Value of Firm-Specific Human Capital
Day of the Dead: Leadership for zombie apocalypses
What can zombie apocalypses teach us about ideal leadership? Quite a lot, it seems. This ep explores a study that used Day of the Dead to unpack leadership under stress. Check it out, and if you find it useful, then please share my channel with your network, and subscribe, like, and leave a comment on… Continue reading Day of the Dead: Leadership for zombie apocalypses
SafetyInsights.org 