What are your definitions of safety, health and risk? In this study Karanikas Haroun Zerguine collected answers from 55 participants in an Australian construction company. Shared under an Open Access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube channel – link in comments. First they identify a dozen or more definitions for each based on existing work: · For… Continue reading Redefining health, risk, and safety for occupational settings: A mixed-methods study
What is your definition of ‘safety’? For some, safety is defined as the presence of capacities. Here, Drew Rae discusses his thoughts, and scientific logics, of this definition. #safety #hse #risk #science #safetyscience #safetyii
What can we learn about how AI changes work based on >180k GitHub users? Turns out, quite a lot. AI induces people to shift task allocation towards their core work and away from non-core, project management activities. #ai #chatgpt #github #work #llm #artificialintelligence
How can we make risk matrices marginally more interpretable? This study ran two experiments by changing the structure. I’ve skipped heaps due to laziness. PS. Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@safe_as_pod Extracts: · They discuss the use of logarithmically increasing RM categories, which allows a comparison between risks that span several orders of magnitude · But, even… Continue reading How People Understand Risk Matrices, and How Matrix Design Can Improve their Use: Findings from Randomized Controlled Studies
Hollnagel discusses the role of training in complex systems. Shared under open access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube channel: Safe As: A thrifty analysis of safety, AI and risk – YouTube Extracts:· “Safety is usually seen as a problem when it is absent rather than when it is present, where accidents, incidents, and the like… Continue reading Safer Systems: People Training or System Tuning?
Does using AI make us smarter, or just more confident? This ep covers a recent study on how generative AI affects our “metacognition” – our ability to judge our own performance. Researchers tracked hundreds of people solving logical reasoning problems with and without AI.
Can GenAI improve workplace well-being and work-life balance? Perhaps. This survey study of 261 construction industry managerial professionals in Nigeria provided insights. PS. Check out my YouTube channel – link in comments. Findings: · “findings reveal a strong and positive association between GenAI adoption and both dimensions of managerial well-being” · “Predictive scheduling, documentation automation, and design… Continue reading Generative artificial intelligence adoption and managerial well-being in construction organizations
What are the risks of death from the everyday, and sometimes not so everyday, things that we do? How does the risk of death from driving compare to skydiving, or swimming and shark attacks? How many bananas will result in death? Let’s find out. This ep discusses ‘micromorts’, which are units of risk indicating a… Continue reading Micromorts and your chance of death from everyday tasks
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