Can BBS & HOP be integrated?

Are BBS & HOP destined for conflict and silos, or can–should–they be integrated? This article from Williams & Roberts argues that they’re complimentary and proposes how we can go about this integration. Shout a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinson

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

Part 2 interview with Dom Cooper: SIFS, BBS, HOP, and can we trust injury outcome measures

Part 2 interview with Dom Cooper on YouTube. Over these 2 eps, we discuss BBS, SIFS, weaknesses of HOP, and a lively debate on whether we can trust injury outcome measures, and more. Please subscribe, like, comment (directly on the YT video), and help share with your network. 🙏 Shout me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinsonSafe As… Continue reading Part 2 interview with Dom Cooper: SIFS, BBS, HOP, and can we trust injury outcome measures

Dr Drew Rae: Does the limited New View / HOP / Safety-II empirical evidence challenge its credibility?

Does the limited empirical interventional evidence underpinning New View / HOP / Safety-II approaches challenge their credibility? Here Dr Drew Rae unpacks his perspective on how this is often framed as a confused question. We also discuss the limited evidence behind Risk Matrices, which prompts the foundational question: what are they actually used for?

Is ‘safety’ the presence of capacities?

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

Safer Systems: People Training or System Tuning?

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?

Safety-I Versus Safety-II: A Mixed-Methods Study Revealing the Imbalance of Approaches in Primary Care Medication Safety

Extracts from a paper that studied medication safety in primary care from both a Safety-I and Safety-II lens – using “medication management in the wild” as their data. ·        2 decades after the ‘To Err is Human’ report has “given way to hard bitten realism that there has been little measurable improvement in the overall rates… Continue reading Safety-I Versus Safety-II: A Mixed-Methods Study Revealing the Imbalance of Approaches in Primary Care Medication Safety

Safe As 38: 4Ds – Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult – for learning (quickisode)

This quickisode unpacks the 4D method for learning: Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult. The source is Sutton et al. 2023. 4Ds for HOP and Learning Teams: A practical how-to guide to facilitate learning from everyday work, critical and dynamic risks with the 4Ds. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kVSsQBISQK3vMREbUGExv?si=LOvB1DE1SfCE-8E7uYSK_Q Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e38-4ds-dumb-dangerous-different-difficult-for-learning/id1819811788?i=1000727889641 Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple,… Continue reading Safe As 38: 4Ds – Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult – for learning (quickisode)

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 30: A better way to think about procedures – resources for action

Do you see procedures as concrete actions that specify the one correct way of working, or more as resources to shape work and sensitise people to risk? Let’s unpack the model 1 / model 2 perspective of rules and see which resonates best with workers. Today’s paper is Hendricks, J. W., & Peres, S. C.… Continue reading Safe As 30: A better way to think about procedures – resources for action