Sensemaking, bureaucracy and weak signals (full PDF article)

Can adherence to process mask weak signals of risk? A cool read examining how ‘soft’ info influences safety in rationalistic firms (a prison in this case) that prioritise ‘hard’ info. Shared under an open access licence. PS. Check out my YouTube: https://youtube.com/@safe_as_pod?si=iUaDPJynPemQRZhY Shout a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinson Extracts: ·        “Soft information is informal, tacit and often qualitative”,… Continue reading Sensemaking, bureaucracy and weak signals (full PDF article)

Examining the asymptote in safety progress: A literature review

This paper is highly recommended. I can’t do it justice as it covers a lot of material, but the authors argue that a range of safety practices and beliefs are linked to a plateau in safety performance improvements. Practices associated with compliance, control and quantification could be, at least partially, responsible for this inability to… Continue reading Examining the asymptote in safety progress: A literature review