Few would disagree that blame negatively impacts learning. However, can efforts to promote ‘no blame’ approaches also carry their own negative and unintended impacts on learning and improvement? Today’s article is: Sherratt, F., Thallapureddy, S., Bhandari, S., Hansen, H., Harch, D., & Hallowell, M. R. (2023). The unintended consequences of no blame ideology for incident… Continue reading Safe As 43: How ‘no blame’ can potentially subvert learning and improvement
Large Language Models in Lung Cancer: Systematic Review
This systematic review of 28 studies explored the application of LLMs for lung cancer care and management. Probably few surprises here. And it’s focused mostly on LLMs, rather than specialised AI models. Extracts: · The review identified 7 primary application domains of LLMs in LC: auxiliary diagnosis, information extraction, question answering, scientific research, medical education, nursing… Continue reading Large Language Models in Lung Cancer: Systematic Review
From transcript to insights: Summarizing safety culture interviews with LLMs
From transcript to insights: summarizing safety culture interviews with LLMs How well does OpenAI o1 work for summarising ‘safety culture’ interviews, and how does it compare to human notes? This study did just that. Extracts: · They assessed correctness via exhaustiveness (comparison of LLM claims vs human interviewer notes), consistency (comparison of LLM claims between subsequent… Continue reading From transcript to insights: Summarizing safety culture interviews with LLMs
Safe As 42: The blindspots of incident reporting approaches
Are our incident reporting systems providing accurate reflections of incidents and severity, or blinkered, highly selective views disconnected from actual injury severities? Today’s article: Geddert, K., Dekker, S., & Rae, A. (2021). How does selective reporting distort understanding of workplace injuries?. Safety, 7(3), 58. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/23vTcFiHIAO1FDeml1gyHY?si=SZUz3GofTL6zeyfY2-RF7w Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple, and if… Continue reading Safe As 42: The blindspots of incident reporting approaches
Safe As 41: Writing better procedures with the dark arts of human factors (quickisode)
How can we apply the dark arts of Human Factors to write better procedures? Let’s find out. Today’s source is: HPOG (2021). Best Practice in Procedure Formatting. Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple, and if you find it useful then please help share the news, and leave a rating and review on… Continue reading Safe As 41: Writing better procedures with the dark arts of human factors (quickisode)
Safe As 40: Types and mechanisms of investigator bias
What are the types and mechanisms of investigator bias, and what are some proposed debiasing methods and improvements? Today’s article: MacLean, C. L. (2022). Cognitive bias in workplace investigation: Problems, perspectives and proposed solutions. Applied Ergonomics, 105, 103860. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5J7wRxN7XlAPmDvmY7QBAY?si=0OtWqnJ4TDOHGKMVQHsCpQ Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple, and if you find it useful then please… Continue reading Safe As 40: Types and mechanisms of investigator bias
Safety-I Versus Safety-II: A Mixed-Methods Study Revealing the Imbalance of Approaches in Primary Care Medication Safety
Extracts from a paper that studied medication safety in primary care from both a Safety-I and Safety-II lens – using “medication management in the wild” as their data. · 2 decades after the ‘To Err is Human’ report has “given way to hard bitten realism that there has been little measurable improvement in the overall rates… Continue reading Safety-I Versus Safety-II: A Mixed-Methods Study Revealing the Imbalance of Approaches in Primary Care Medication Safety
Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps
‘Re-Imagining Risk Assessment’ Another extract from Marcin’s book ‘Learning from Normal Work’. These extracts come from the chapter about how we can expand the imagination of the risk assessment – focusing on John and Sarah: · “ … we were still seeing accidents. In some cases, the accidents were repeating themselves. Our traditional risk assessments focused… Continue reading Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps
Cultural contributors to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster – groupism, obedience to authority, wilful blindness
This article explored some cultural aspects underpinning the Fukushima disaster. Extracts: · Org failure types contributing to the disaster included “inadequate risk assessments and lack of safeguards against known threats”, “inadequate levels of knowledge and equipment inspection related to severe accidents”, “inadequate emergency response training and preparedness” & “inadequate regulatory oversight by regulators and the government”… Continue reading Cultural contributors to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster – groupism, obedience to authority, wilful blindness
Safe As 39: How biased are incident investigators?
Investigations are reputed to be ‘fact finding’ exercises: objective searches for facts and truth. How what role does investigator bias play in constructing the incident findings? Today’s article is: MacLean, C. L., & Dror, I. E. (2023). Measuring base-rate bias error in workplace safety investigators. Journal of safety research, 84, 108-116. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sd92JGDTL4vq4s9AGJ2ac?si=tWpXuga6RwqmF0r-AiWPnw Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e39-how-biased-are-incident-investigators/id1819811788?i=1000728238089 Make sure… Continue reading Safe As 39: How biased are incident investigators?
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