“Blame Fixes Nothing”: Steve Scott on Making HOP Work at Two in the Morning
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Safety Differently – Innovative and Critical Safety Thinking in HOP (Human and Organizational Performance)
Complicated & Complex Systems in Safety Management
When General Stanley McChrystal took over the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command[1] (JSOC) in Iraq during the mid-2000s, he inherited an organisation…
Adam Johns21 August, 2019The original hearts and minds campaign, and the dereliction of behavior-based safety
In 1960, shortly after his election, President Kennedy asked Robert McNamara to become secretary of defense in his new cabinet. McNamara, known as a…
Sidney Dekker4 September, 2017You can have your cake and eat it
Safety is Our Number One Priority! Do they think we are stupid or what? Such a company slogan is one of the…
Andrew Townsend14 February, 2013Zero vision and the Western salvation narrative
[bq_right] “You want if possible—and there is no madder ‘if possible’—to abolish suffering…?” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (par. 225, emphasis…
Sidney Dekker8 December, 2014What I learnt from failure
Let’s go back some 18 years in time. The local time was 03.10. I was standing my watch as a Second Officer…
Nippin Anand13 September, 2019David Woods on Resilience and Innovation
From the 2014 Velocity Conference in New York City, the Ohio State University professor expands on his keynote about sustained adaptability.
David Woods17 September, 2014People are the solution
I once ran some focus groups on a mine site. The goal was to identify conditions that made work difficult. One of…
Daniel Hummerdal22 September, 2015Disruptive Safety
Recently I was studying Google’s management philosophy where I was struck by one of their principles: “make mistakes well”. On initial presentation,…
Kelvin Genn29 September, 2014Lessons from the UK’s Peak District
Question – What have limestone quarries in the UK’s Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and Health & Safety got in common? Answer – Apart…
Andrew Townsend28 February, 2013Latest stories
Atif Ashraf on Why Workers Adapt Procedures
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