Another interesting report from Safe Work Australia, authored by O’Neill, Wolfe & Holley, which explored performance measurement & CEO/executive incentives. Too much to cover, so just a few points on injury measures: · They highlight the limits of a “single injury rate as a generic, all-purpose indicator of WHS performance”, relating to data quality and the… Continue reading Cooking the books: how injury measures and Executive incentives (can) lead to ruin
Tag: false-sense-of-safety
Quantitative Risk Assessments as Enabling Devices in Cybersecurity
Oof, a real banger Master’s from Colette Alexander, exploring the role of Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA) as fantasy documents and enabling devices in cybersecurity. Can’t do this justice, so just a few extracts: Study link: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9148570/file/9148571.pdf My site with more reviews: https://safety177496371.wordpress.com LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benhutchinson2_oof-a-real-banger-masters-from-colette-activity-7259318324717592576-y2Qs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Safety checklist compliance and a false sense of safety: New directions for research
This discussion paper explored the checklists and false senses of safety. In healthcare they say that probably the best known version of the checklist is the WHO surgical safety checklist. Prior work has generally shown positive effects, like reduced care complications and 30-day mortality rate. Interesting though, studies on compliance rates of the WHO checklist… Continue reading Safety checklist compliance and a false sense of safety: New directions for research
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