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E43: How 'no blame' can potentially subvert learning and improvement
Season 1 Episode 43
Few would disagree that blame negatively impacts learning.
However, can efforts to promote 'no blame' approaches also carry their own negative and uni…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
E42: The blindspots of incident reporting approaches
Are our incident reporting systems providing accurate reflections of incidents and severity, or blinkered, highly selective views disconnected from a…
1 year ago
E41: Writing better procedures with the dark arts of human factors (quickisode)
How can we apply the dark arts of Human Factors to write better procedures? Let's find out.
Today's source is: HPOG (2021). Best Practice in Procedure…
1 year ago
E40: Types and mechanisms of investigator bias
What are the types and mechanisms of investigator bias, and what are some proposed debiasing methods and improvements?
Today's article: MacLean, C. L.…
1 year ago
E39: How biased are incident investigators?
Season 1 Episode 39
Investigations are reputed to be 'fact finding' exercises: objective searches for facts and truth.
How what role does investigator bias play in constr…
1 year ago
E38: 4Ds - Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult - for learning (quickisode)
Season 1 Episode 38
This quickisode unpacks the 4D method for learning: Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult.
The source is Sutton et al. 2023. 4Ds for HOP and Learning …
1 year ago
E37: Psychological Safety - what is it good for? A meta-analysis of research
Season 1 Episode 37
Psychological safety has reached almost Deity levels.
Every third business, HR or tech article and its dog seems to mention Psychological Safety.
But w…
1 year ago
E36: How audits fail prior to major accidents
Season 1 Episode 39
How do audits fail to avert major disasters? What do investigations after a major accident say about the performance, or failures, of audits?
Today's …
1 year ago
E35: Critical Steps for managing hazardous work (quickisode)
Season 1 Episode 35
Some task steps are so important, that marshal or exchange so much energy, that they must go right first time, every time.
These are called Critical …
1 year ago
E34: The failure of critical controls in construction
Season 1 Episode 34
How reliable are the critical controls within construction? Which critical controls fail, and how?
Today's article is Selleck, R., Hassall, M., & Catt…
1 year ago