Designing for resilient performance & worker participation: design principles

This review explored how to design for worker participation, drawing on the design of resilient systems. Not much to say – the extracts cover core resilient design principles. Some extracts to contextualise the images: ·        Participation refers to “the worker’s influence in decision-making related to safety, involving information sharing between people” ·        “Design for resilient performance Design… Continue reading Designing for resilient performance & worker participation: design principles

Management of safety rules and procedures

Really interesting report from Hale, Borys & Else about the nuances of rules, and contrasting model 1 / model 2. [* Check out this week’s compendium dedicated to Hale & Hopkins, link below] A few extracts: ·        A classic Dutch railways study showed that 3% of workers used rules often and 50% almost never, 47% found… Continue reading Management of safety rules and procedures

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

Compendium of Nancy Leveson: STAMP, STPA, CAST and Systems Thinking

Although I don’t often mention or post about Leveson’s work, she’s probably been the most influential thinker on my approach after Barry Turner. So here is a mini-compendium covering some of Leveson’s work. Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840608101478 https://doi.org/10.1145/7474.7528 http://therm.ward.bay.wiki.org/assets/pages/documents-archived/safety-3.pdf http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/Rasmussen-Legacy.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623… Continue reading Compendium of Nancy Leveson: STAMP, STPA, CAST and Systems Thinking