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E73: When business indicators become the problem
Season 1 Episode 73
Does counting change what counts? If we create indicators on actions that we'd like to monitor, like injuries, profits, tendering, productivity, do w…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
E72: Fatal Blind Spot: Why Leader Safety Walkarounds Failed Deepwater Horizon
Season 1 Episode 72
Seven hours before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, four senior executives were on-site congratulating the crew for achieving seven years without …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
E71: Leaders, schmeaders...the age of FOLLOWERSHIP is here
Season 1 Episode 71
Leadership captures the headlines and conference topics worldwide, but what is the role of followers in team and organisational performance?
How can o…
8 months ago
E70: Learning Teams: Why Blaming Staff Doesn't Make Workplaces Safer
How well do Learning Teams compare to RCAs for the number and quality of findings? This study compares the two.
Note: Update and reupload of a previou…
8 months ago
E69: Precursors of SIFS & ineffective corrective actions
Season 1 Episode 69
What are the precursor factors that kill people at work? And are our investigations effectively fixing these factors?
Ref: Stockel, L. R. (2023). What…
8 months, 1 week ago
E68: Do warning signs work? A dive into the science
Season 1 Episode 68
You saw the sign, and read the words. So, apparently you understand the risk, or do you?Source: Hancock, P. A., Kaplan, A. D., MacArthur, K. R., & Sz…
8 months, 1 week ago
E67: Designing safer and healthier shift work systems/rosters
How can we design better - as in safer, healthier, more productive shift work systems and rosters? Let's find out.
Sources:
QGN 16. Guidance Note for F…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
E66: Is AI BS'ing you?
Season 1 Episode 66
Are AI models BS'ing you? Do they have such an indifference--a lack of understanding even--about the truth, that their outputs constitute BS?
Note: Th…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
E65: The use and abuse of safety indicators
Season 1 Episode 65
Safety indicators, metrics, measures, KPIs...whatever.
Are these indicators used primarily for genuine learning and improvement - or more often misin…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
E64: How can we move forward from notions of 'human error'?
Season 1 Episode 64
This paper explores how complex systems not only fail, but succeed, and provides 9 ways that we can move beyond simplistic notions of system failure …
9 months, 2 weeks ago