Principles for managing barriers in the petroleum industry – the Norwegian approach. Here’s some extract from this 40 page guide: · Barriers are “measures intended to detect failure, hazard and accident situations at an early stage, reduce their potential for propagating and limit harm and disruption” · “No matter how safely and robustly we design and operate… Continue reading Principles for managing barriers in the petroleum industry
Safe As 38: 4Ds – Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult – for learning (quickisode)
This quickisode unpacks the 4D method for learning: Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult. The source is Sutton et al. 2023. 4Ds for HOP and Learning Teams: A practical how-to guide to facilitate learning from everyday work, critical and dynamic risks with the 4Ds. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kVSsQBISQK3vMREbUGExv?si=LOvB1DE1SfCE-8E7uYSK_Q Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e38-4ds-dumb-dangerous-different-difficult-for-learning/id1819811788?i=1000727889641 Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple,… Continue reading Safe As 38: 4Ds – Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult – for learning (quickisode)
Brent Sutton and I talk shop on the HOP Into Action podcast
Brent and I talked shop about safety, research and learning. Link: https://lnkd.in/gFhqKa7A
Lack of vehicle crash protection in 1980 was one of “the greatest and most tragic health scandals of our century” – Haddon Jr
Not much to say here – on a current Haddon reading bender and found this a pretty cool statement. Haddon, lamenting that as of 1980, vehicles lacking sufficient crash protection was one of: “the greatest and most tragic health scandals of our century”. Ref: Haddon Jr, W. (1980). Advances in the epidemiology of injuries as… Continue reading Lack of vehicle crash protection in 1980 was one of “the greatest and most tragic health scandals of our century” – Haddon Jr
Articles on safety voice, silence, interpersonal risk and psychological safety
Buncha links on safety voice, silence, interpersonal risk and psychological safety. No other rhyme or reason to it. Heaps more on my site. PS. Check out the latest Safe As pod – this covers psyche safety. 1. https://safetyinsights.org/2022/10/21/the-asymmetry-of-voice-silence-or-the-sounds-of-silence/ 2. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e37-psychological-safety-what-is-it-good-for-a-meta/id1819811788?i=1000727734335 3. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-soft-intelligence-hard-multi-site-qualitative-study-ben 4. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re%25EF%25AC%2582ections-voice-silence-workplace-conversations-ben-hutchinson-k7bic 5. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/staying-silent-safety-issues-conceptualizing-silence-ben-hutchinson 6. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benhutchinson2_what-is-the-relationship-between-different-activity-7185411204012507136-dh-1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 7. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/taking-your-team-behind-curtain-effects-leader-safety-ben-hutchinson 8. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voices-carry-effects-verbal-physical-aggression-ben-hutchinson 9. https://safetyinsights.org/2021/02/16/upward-voice-participative-decision-making-trust-in-leadership-and-safety-climate-matter/ 10.… Continue reading Articles on safety voice, silence, interpersonal risk and psychological safety
Safe As 37: Psychological Safety – what is it good for? A meta-analysis of research
Psychological safety has reached almost Deity levels. Every third business, HR or tech article and its dog seems to mention Psychological Safety, in the context of almost everything. But what evidence underpins the construct? As we’ll find, even by 2017, quite a lot. Today’s article is Frazier, M. L., Fainshmidt, S., Klinger, R. L., Pezeshkan,… Continue reading Safe As 37: Psychological Safety – what is it good for? A meta-analysis of research
Deming: “Eliminate numerical quotas for the work force” and exhortations for accountability, since they are “directed at the wrong people”
“What is wrong with posters and exhortations? They are directed at the wrong people”. So Deming wisely argues. For Deming: · Such exhortations are problematic since they to “arise from management’s supposition that the production workers could, by putting their backs into the job, accomplish zero defects, improve quality, improve productivity, and all else that is… Continue reading Deming: “Eliminate numerical quotas for the work force” and exhortations for accountability, since they are “directed at the wrong people”
Not designing safe-to-fail systems is “too high a penalty to pay for being human”
On the importance of designing safe-to-fail systems. A beautiful reflection from one of the GOATs in public safety – William Haddon Jr, about how dying for a moment of distraction, due to largely design matters, is “too high a penalty to pay for being human”. This comes from an upcoming summary of a 1993 article… Continue reading Not designing safe-to-fail systems is “too high a penalty to pay for being human”
Improving the Risk Matrix for Supply Chain Risk Management
This paper discusses risk matrices (RMs) for supply chain risk management (SCRM). It was meant to be just a few dot-points, but…here we are. Extracts: · “the main aim of SCRM is to identify whether a risk is “acceptable”, “tolerable” or “unacceptable”, and, if the latter two, to identify if and how a risk might… Continue reading Improving the Risk Matrix for Supply Chain Risk Management
Error Traps, Learning from Normal Work & Marcin Nazaruk’s new book
Are your workplace observations calibrated to error traps and workplace design, or just superficial behaviours? A couple of extracts from Marcin Nazaruk‘s new book ‘Learning from Normal Work’. This part reflects on a well-intentioned, but rather shallow, workplace observation from John (using the Walk-Through / Talk-Through method…this method and others will be covered on my… Continue reading Error Traps, Learning from Normal Work & Marcin Nazaruk’s new book
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