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E23: Safety-II inspired debriefs (Quickisode)
Season 1 Episode 23
Want to add a garnish of Safety-II inspired thinking into debriefs? Check out this 4 min quickisode.
Today's article is: Bentley, S. K., McNamara, S.,…
1 year, 1 month ago
E22: Zombie ideas of leadership - time to exorcise the deceased concepts?
Season 1 Episode 22
What if many of the ideas we cling to about leaders, are more zombie ideas - outdated concepts that refuse to die?
What if some of these ideas are ho…
1 year, 1 month ago
E21: Beyond the Hierarchy - Haddon's energy countermeasures (Quickisode)
Season 1 Episode 21
This special quickisode unpacks Haddon's 10 energy countermeasures.
This approach provides an alternative or compliment to the hierarchy of control, a…
1 year, 1 month ago
E20: SMS certification and its impacts on safety performance
Season 1 Episode 20
We chase certifications, implement systems, but what impact are we really having on operational performance?
Is achieving certification, like ISO 180…
1 year, 1 month ago
E19: Leadership for safety - silver bullet or hype?
Season 1 Episode 19
We often put leadership on a pedestal - the silver bullet for all organisational ills.
But what does the evidence suggest? What influence does various…
1 year, 1 month ago
E18: When Emotion Leads Risk - risk as feelings and not just numbers
Risk in safety is often framed in matrices as likelihood x consequences. It holds an allure of (semi)objectivity - the numbers are the numbers.
But wh…
1 year, 1 month ago
E17: Critical Decisions & Local Rationality: Tools for making sense of situations
Season 1 Episode 17
Why did they do that, what an idiot! What if our inability to understand the apparent stupidity of an action, after the fact, is more an issue with u…
1 year, 1 month ago
E16: Systems thinking and investigations
Season 1 Episode 16
Do construction investigations take broader systems perspectives of accident causation, or stuck in the mud focused on local factors, people and beha…
1 year, 2 months ago
E15: Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and incident prevention: do they work?
Season 1 Episode 15
Many organisations rely on their root cause analyses (RCA) to help learn about incidents, and, ideally, prevent incident reoccurrences.
So the logic g…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ep 14: Leadership walkarounds - ritualistic peacocking or solid trust building?
Season 1 Episode 14
We've all heard about or been part of them - leader walkarounds.
Are walkarounds backed by solid evidence - do they build break down silos, enhance tr…
1 year, 2 months ago