This covers some core problems with risk matrices. It’s argued that while they’re established tools, appearing to be “authoritative, and intellectually rigorous”, this “could be just an illusion …bred by the human bias of uncertainty aversion and authority bias”. Hence, matrices have “many flaws” that can “diminish their usefulness to the point where they become… Continue reading Problems with Risk Matrices Using Ordinal Scales
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Audits, excessive compliance focus and risk blindness
Still genuinely surprised that our last paper on audit failures has generated, relatively speaking, so much interest: now the second-most accessed paper in the Process Safety Progress journal. [* It shows as number 1 but that’s a glitch in the matrix. There’s a study on ‘red squirrels tests’ that has HEAPS more views.] No doubt… Continue reading Audits, excessive compliance focus and risk blindness
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