When uncertainty and ignorance is abound on risk, should we ‘keep it simple’? Or keep it complex by debating multiple perspectives and embracing uncertainty and ambiguity? Extracts: · “When knowledge is uncertain, experts should avoid pressures to simplify their advice. Render decision-makers accountable for decisions” · “Expert advice is often thought most useful to policy when it… Continue reading ‘Keep It Complex’: perspectives on risk, uncertainty and ambiguity
Practice With Less AI Makes Perfect: Partially Automated AI During Training Leads to Better Worker Motivation, Engagement, and Skill Acquisition
How does AI use in training improve, or impact, skill acquisition? This study manipulated training protocols with varying levels of AI decision-making automation, among 102 participants during a quality control task. Extracts: · “Partial automation led to the most positive outcomes” · “Participants who were trained with the fully automated version of the AIEDS had a significantly… Continue reading Practice With Less AI Makes Perfect: Partially Automated AI During Training Leads to Better Worker Motivation, Engagement, and Skill Acquisition
Learning from normal work in complex sociotechnical system—Case in midstream operation
This article discussed learning from normal work, via semi-structured episodic interviews. It’s open access, so not a summary. Extracts: · Briefly discussing historical safety progression, “safety progress was achieved by expanding existing rules to cover more potential failures, and safety failures resulted from gaps in rules or their lack of application” · “However, no procedure, no matter… Continue reading Learning from normal work in complex sociotechnical system—Case in midstream operation
Safe As 33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful
Large Language Models, like ChatGPT have amazing capabilities. But are their responses, aiming to be convincing human text, more indicative of BS? That is, responses that are indifferent to the truth? If they are, what are the practical implications? Today’s paper is: Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and… Continue reading Safe As 33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful
The Contribution of Permits-To-Work for Safety
This discussed permit-to-work (PTW) systems for enabling, or hindering, daily work. Many interviews and site observations were undertaken. Extracts: · “The PTW follows the growing demand for modern control in organizations, which has spread through industries and has increased bureaucracy, as pointed out by Dekker” · “This leads to “super-specified” bureaucratic processes, which are misdirected and generally… Continue reading The Contribution of Permits-To-Work for Safety
Effect of Fatigue Training on Safety, Fatigue, and Sleep in Emergency Medical Services Personnel and Other Shift Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This meta-analysis and systematic review investigated research on the impact of fatigue training on fatigue-related outcomes. Target groups were emergency medical services personnel and other similar shift work groups. Extracts: · Overall they found “fatigue training improved safety and health outcomes in shift workers” · Findings from two studies were “favorable for patient safety,” showing a “decrease… Continue reading Effect of Fatigue Training on Safety, Fatigue, and Sleep in Emergency Medical Services Personnel and Other Shift Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Safe As 32: Navigating fatigue with defences in depth (quickisode)
This quickisode discusses Dawson & McCulloch’s structured defences in depth approach to navigate occupational fatigue at different levels. Today’s paper: Dawson, D., & McCulloch, K. (2005). Managing fatigue: it’s about sleep. Sleep medicine reviews, 9(5), 365-380. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zz1pg3u3j8NayH6dTQTXH?si=JeSVlaUEQEK5IxfH2tSVEQ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep32-navigating-fatigue-risk-with-the-defences-in/id1819811788?i=1000725535912 Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple, and if you find it useful then please… Continue reading Safe As 32: Navigating fatigue with defences in depth (quickisode)
Principles of human performance and the claim of 80% accidents due to human error
I found this an interesting juxtaposition of conventional and progressive views of human performance from the DOE Human Performance Improvement Handbook 2009, vol 1. Not a criticism or commentary – just found it interesting. I’m probably making too much of it. But, whatever. Extracts: · They refer to the oft-quoted statement that “About 80 percent of all… Continue reading Principles of human performance and the claim of 80% accidents due to human error
Safe As 31: Do individual mental health interventions work? Maybe not
Do individual level mental health interventions, like personal resilience training, yoga, fruit bowls and training actually improve measures of mental health? Today’s paper is: Fleming, W. J. (2024). Employee well‐being outcomes from individual‐level mental health interventions: Cross‐sectional evidence from the United Kingdom. Industrial Relations Journal, 55(2), 162-182. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6voys15y2VU0leio9tREoQ?si=39ZZ3AQ-QQGwry6vc6p7QQ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep31-do-individual-mental-health-interventions-work/id1819811788?i=1000725381012 Make sure to subscribe to Safe… Continue reading Safe As 31: Do individual mental health interventions work? Maybe not
Safe As week in review: Investigation language, restorative just culture, model 1 / 2 procedures
Safe As week in review: 28 Agentive language in investigations: This ep discusses Vesel’s article, which unpacks the role of language in investigations. · People naturally want to know who or what was responsible for an action and particularly something undesirable. The assignment of action is called agency, where an agent is a person or… Continue reading Safe As week in review: Investigation language, restorative just culture, model 1 / 2 procedures
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