Safety Insights
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Hi, I regularly review and summarise scientific research on safety, safety science, organisational performance, psychology, and major accidents
"No clear conclusions can be extracted regarding the relationship between psychological safety and patient safety" #patientsafety #healthcare #psychologicalsafety
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October 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"No clear conclusions can be extracted regarding the relationship between psychological safety and patient safety" #patientsafety #healthcare #psychologicalsafety
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Safe As podcast 44: Human-centred design - some terms from Don Norman open.spotify.com/episode/2aOZ... #ergonomics #safety #design
October 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Safe As podcast 44: Human-centred design - some terms from Don Norman open.spotify.com/episode/2aOZ... #ergonomics #safety #design
Safe As 43: How 'no blame' approaches can potentially subvert #learning and improvement open.spotify.com/episode/1Fha... #blame #safety #construction #patientsafety
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Safe As 43: How 'no blame' approaches can potentially subvert #learning and improvement open.spotify.com/episode/1Fha... #blame #safety #construction #patientsafety
Cultural contributors to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster - groupism, obedience to authority, wilful blindness safetyinsights.org/2025/09/26/c... #safety #risk #disaster
September 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Cultural contributors to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster - groupism, obedience to authority, wilful blindness safetyinsights.org/2025/09/26/c... #safety #risk #disaster
Safe As pod 39: Investigations are reputed to be 'fact finding': objective searches for facts and truth. But what role does investigator bias play in constructing the incident findings? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety #risk #bias
September 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Safe As pod 39: Investigations are reputed to be 'fact finding': objective searches for facts and truth. But what role does investigator bias play in constructing the incident findings? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety #risk #bias
Principles for managing barriers / risk controls in the petroleum industry - barriers, elements, performance shaping factors safetyinsights.org/2025/09/24/p... #oilandgas #safety #risk #engineering
September 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Principles for managing barriers / risk controls in the petroleum industry - barriers, elements, performance shaping factors safetyinsights.org/2025/09/24/p... #oilandgas #safety #risk #engineering
Safe As pod 38: 4Ds for learning - Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety2 #patientsafety #risk #safety
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Safe As pod 38: 4Ds for learning - Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety2 #patientsafety #risk #safety
Safe As pod 37: Psychological Safety - what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #psychologicalsafety #risk #leadership #culture
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Safe As pod 37: Psychological Safety - what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #psychologicalsafety #risk #leadership #culture
Deming: "Eliminate numerical quotas for the work force" and exhortations for accountability, since they are "directed at the wrong people" safetyinsights.org/2025/09/21/d... #quality #risk #business
September 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Deming: "Eliminate numerical quotas for the work force" and exhortations for accountability, since they are "directed at the wrong people" safetyinsights.org/2025/09/21/d... #quality #risk #business
Not designing safe-to-fail systems is "too high a penalty to pay for being human" - Haddon Jr (from Guarnieri, 1992) safetyinsights.org/2025/09/20/n... #publicsafety #safety #risk
September 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Not designing safe-to-fail systems is "too high a penalty to pay for being human" - Haddon Jr (from Guarnieri, 1992) safetyinsights.org/2025/09/20/n... #publicsafety #safety #risk
What are some common issues with barrier / risk control systems, and bow ties?https://safetyinsights.org/2025/09/19/risk-barrier-and-bow-tie-quality-issues/ #safety #risk #processsafety #oilgas
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What are some common issues with barrier / risk control systems, and bow ties?https://safetyinsights.org/2025/09/19/risk-barrier-and-bow-tie-quality-issues/ #safety #risk #processsafety #oilgas
Safe As pod: How do audits fail to avert major disasters? What do investigations say about the performance, or failures, of audits? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety #risk #auditready
September 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Safe As pod: How do audits fail to avert major disasters? What do investigations say about the performance, or failures, of audits? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety #risk #auditready
Safe As pod 35: Managing Critical Steps - those few steps so important that they must go right first time, every time spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/muUbKWMjEWb/ #safety #risk #safetyculture
September 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Safe As pod 35: Managing Critical Steps - those few steps so important that they must go right first time, every time spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/muUbKWMjEWb/ #safety #risk #safetyculture
Safe as pod: How reliable are the critical controls within #construction? Which critical controls fail, and how? open.spotify.com/episode/2hkc... #safety
September 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Safe as pod: How reliable are the critical controls within #construction? Which critical controls fail, and how? open.spotify.com/episode/2hkc... #safety
False safety as the past isn't a good proxy for future safety, or "We've done it this way for 20 years so it must be safe" safetyinsights.org/2025/09/13/t... #processsafety #safety
September 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
False safety as the past isn't a good proxy for future safety, or "We've done it this way for 20 years so it must be safe" safetyinsights.org/2025/09/13/t... #processsafety #safety
'Keep It Complex': perspectives on #risk, #uncertainty and ambiguity safetyinsights.org/2025/09/13/k... #complexity #science
September 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
'Keep It Complex': perspectives on #risk, #uncertainty and ambiguity safetyinsights.org/2025/09/13/k... #complexity #science
Safe As podcast 33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/WCOx2lcarWb/ #ai #llm #ArtificialIntelligence
September 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Safe As podcast 33: Is ChatGPT bullsh** you? How Large Language models aim to be convincing rather than truthful spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/WCOx2lcarWb/ #ai #llm #ArtificialIntelligence
Safe As podcast 31: Do individual level mental health interventions, like personal resilience training, yoga, fruit bowls and training actually improve measures of mental health? Maybe not spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/tG3CstX8qWb #MentalHealth #workplacewellness #burnout
September 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Safe As podcast 31: Do individual level mental health interventions, like personal resilience training, yoga, fruit bowls and training actually improve measures of mental health? Maybe not spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/tG3CstX8qWb #MentalHealth #workplacewellness #burnout
Safe As podcast 30: A better way to think about procedures - resources for action open.spotify.com/episode/4bkX... #safety #patientsafety #oilandgas
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Safe As podcast 30: A better way to think about procedures - resources for action open.spotify.com/episode/4bkX... #safety #patientsafety #oilandgas
Safe As 29 pod: This quickisode jumps into Sidney Dekker's restorative just culture checklist - available on SafetyDifferently . Com open.spotify.com/episode/6kEf... #culture #justculture #healthcare #patientsafety
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Safe As 29 pod: This quickisode jumps into Sidney Dekker's restorative just culture checklist - available on SafetyDifferently . Com open.spotify.com/episode/6kEf... #culture #justculture #healthcare #patientsafety
Safe As 28 podcast: Does the language we use in investigations shape allocations of blame? Quite possibly spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/j6EE8d95bWb #blame #safety #leadership
August 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Safe As 28 podcast: Does the language we use in investigations shape allocations of blame? Quite possibly spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/j6EE8d95bWb #blame #safety #leadership
Safe As 26 pod: Risk Controls: Alternative Controls / Direct Controls (AC/DC) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety #risk #construction
August 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Safe As 26 pod: Risk Controls: Alternative Controls / Direct Controls (AC/DC) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #safety #risk #construction
Another extract from Hannigan et al. 2024 'Beware of botshit' paper, exploring the differences between human bullshit vs Chatbot bullshit.
Bullshit isn't lies, but an indifference to the truth #llm #ai #tech #artificialintelligence
Bullshit isn't lies, but an indifference to the truth #llm #ai #tech #artificialintelligence
August 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Another extract from Hannigan et al. 2024 'Beware of botshit' paper, exploring the differences between human bullshit vs Chatbot bullshit.
Bullshit isn't lies, but an indifference to the truth #llm #ai #tech #artificialintelligence
Bullshit isn't lies, but an indifference to the truth #llm #ai #tech #artificialintelligence
Thanks Ian! Really nice article about the generative bullshit from LLMs
August 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thanks Ian! Really nice article about the generative bullshit from LLMs
Safe AF pod #11: Lagging measures (TRIFR) has no discernible link with fatalities, occurs almost entirely randomly, and rewarding changes in TRIFR is more akin to rewarding random chance creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #safety #engineering #psychology
July 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Safe AF pod #11: Lagging measures (TRIFR) has no discernible link with fatalities, occurs almost entirely randomly, and rewarding changes in TRIFR is more akin to rewarding random chance creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... #safety #engineering #psychology