Resilient health and safety performance on construction sites from a safety-II perspective

“These find­ings .. emphasizes that resilience stems from dynamic, iterative practices that foster adaptive capacity” How do construction management practices influence resilient health and safety performance? Shared under an open access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube: https://youtube.com/@safe_as_pod?si=iUaDPJynPemQRZhY Extracts: ·    “Instead of implementing proactive interventions that address planning deficiencies, poor coordination, and organizational decision-making under dynamic… Continue reading Resilient health and safety performance on construction sites from a safety-II perspective

Open-access healthcare debriefing videos need to incorporate more Safety-II learnings

Are Safety-II concepts used in debriefing? This explored the language and framings used in open access debriefing videos, to ascertain whether the questioning probes deeper into S-I (focus on failure/error) or S-II (focus on normal work, variability, success) questioning. Note: Only 7 videos met inclusion for transcription/evaluation. They note that learning from success isn’t “uncommon… Continue reading Open-access healthcare debriefing videos need to incorporate more Safety-II learnings

Human Error: Trick or Treat?

This 2007 chapter from Hollnagel unpacked whether we really need the concept of “human error” (HE). It’s a whole chapter, so I’ve skipped HEAPS. Tl;dr according to Hollnagel: ·         “there is no need of a theory of “human error” because the observed discrepancies in performance should be explained by a theory of normal performance rather… Continue reading Human Error: Trick or Treat?