Don Norman: While 5% of accidents due to human error is believable, 95% isn't. It must be a "design problem" safetyinsights.org/2025/11/29/9... #design #humanfactors #ergonomics #HCD #safety

This study found #ESG reporting associated with reduced disabling injuries, and the effects were stronger with more diverse boards safetyinsights.org/2025/11/25/t... #diversity #sustainability #safety

Knowledge in the head vs the world: And how to design for cognition from Don Norman 'Design of Everyday Things' safetyinsights.org/2025/11/23/k... #design #humanfactors #ux #ui #tech

"Artificial intelligence fails to outperform orthopaedic surgeons", but does outperform surgeons in many other tasks safetyinsights.org/2025/11/21/a... #ai #LLM #tech

Safe As podcast: Diving into a process of safety decluttering - where clutter is the safety work, procedures, activities etc. that don't contribute to operational safety open.spotify.com/episode/3bFa... #safety #clutter #risk

Don Norman: "Eliminate the term human error. Instead, talk about [how people and machines] communicat[e] and [interact]" safetyinsights.org/2025/11/22/h... #ai #design #humanfactors #ux #ui

Can stronger system design = weaker human insights? Gary Klein - Seeing What Others Don't safetyinsights.org/2025/11/09/c... #Systems

How insights do or don't emerge safetyinsights.org/2025/11/08/w... #insights #intuition #psychology

Cool new study: #AI #LLM makes you 'smarter' but none the wiser. It boosts your performance—then inflates user self-awareness. E.g., AI makes us perform better—but also think we’re above average. safetyinsights.org/2025/10/31/a... #artificial_intelligence

"No clear conclusions can be extracted regarding the relationship between psychological safety and patient safety" #patientsafety #healthcare #psychologicalsafety safetyinsights.org/2025/10/18/p...

Short and long-term effects of interactivity in immersive virtual reality training for occupational safety safetyinsights.org/2025/10/12/s... #safety #VR #simulation

“victims of work-related accidents showed ... [PTSD], anxiety, depression, anger", and low resilience and psychopathological symptoms "should be considered as relatively high risk factors for PTSD in accident survivors” #MentalHealth #safety #ptsd safetyinsights.org/2025/10/11/p...

Safe As podcast 44: Human-centred design - some terms from Don Norman open.spotify.com/episode/2aOZ... #ergonomics #safety #design

Safety culture maturity models in occupational safety and health: An updated scoping review safetyinsights.org/2025/10/06/s... #safety #safetyculture #ohs #culture

Safe As 43: How 'no blame' approaches can potentially subvert #learning and improvement open.spotify.com/episode/1Fha... #blame #safety #construction #patientsafety

Large Language Models in Lung Cancer: Systematic Review safetyinsights.org/2025/10/05/l... #healthcare #ai #llm #patientsafety

How well does #OpenAI o1 work for summarising #safetyculture interviews, and how does it compare to human notes? Pretty well safetyinsights.org/2025/10/04/f... #llm #ai #safety

"This study revealed a fundamental limitation in applying #Safety1 principles to ... medication safety, particularly the assumption that all system defects can be feasibly fixed" safetyinsights.org/2025/09/28/s... #safety2 #hop #healthcare #patientsafety

Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps - from Marcin Nazaruk's book 'Learning from Normal Work' Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps safetyinsights.org/2025/09/27/1... #safety #risk #accident

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

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

Fukushima was a disaster “Made in Japan” from "ingrained conventions of Japanese culture ... reflexive obedience ..reluctance to question authority .. devotion to ‘sticking with the program’ .. our groupism" safetyinsights.org/2025/02/16/f... #risk #safety #disaster #society #nuclear

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

Risk matrices “cannot realistically be used to quantify risk with any precision, but it can be used to separate acceptable from unacceptable, and to identify risks that are edge cases” safetyinsights.org/2025/09/20/i... #risk #engineering #safety

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

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

Are risk matrixes too inherently flawed to be considered best practice? Perhaps, according to this article safetyinsights.org/2025/09/17/i... #safety #risk #engineering

Was your last #safety incident a one off issue or systemic system flaw? #risk #law safetyinsights.org/2025/09/16/w...

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

Project #complexity in #construction negatively impacts safety performance, but “becomes less significant when a higher level of resilient safety culture exists" safetyinsights.org/2023/10/16/i... #safety #systemsthinking #business

Kletz: “Saying an accident is due to human failing is about as helpful as saying that a fall is due to gravity. It is true but it does not lead to constructive action” safetyinsights.org/2025/09/15/k... #engineering #safety #science #oil&gas

Safe as pod: How reliable are the critical controls within #construction? Which critical controls fail, and how? open.spotify.com/episode/2hkc... #safety

Refinery study on Normal Accident Theory shows that high complexity & tight coupling lead to more hazardous chem releases. Human operators are overwhelmed and even safety buffers/slack can't prevent accidents when systems get too complex safetyinsights.org/2024/07/02/e... #complexity #science

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

New research on #AI & training: Full decision automation kills learning. It makes trainees passive. Partial automation is better, where AI acts as a decision aid. This boosts engagement, autonomy, and performance safetyinsights.org/2025/09/12/p... #corporatetraining #FutureOfTech

Learning from normal work in complex sociotechnical system—Case in midstream operation safetyinsights.org/2025/09/11/l... #safety2 #safety

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

How permits-to-work help, or hinder, daily work safetyinsights.org/2025/09/10/t... #safety #hse #oilgas #Mining #EHS

Fatigue training possibly effective for reduction of errors, drowsy driving and vehicle crashes safetyinsights.org/2025/09/09/e... #safety #fatigue #healthcare #PatientSafety

Safe As podcast: Navigating fatigue risk with defences in depth spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/UYKa7Jg9qWb/ #fatigue #safety #sleeping

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

How do barriers/risk control systems fail due to systemic issues? safetyinsights.org/2025/09/06/h... #safety #risk #engineering

Multi-permit PTW systems with greater "redundancy may result in decreased safety". 1998 article from Trevor Kletz safetyinsights.org/2025/09/05/m... #safety #engineering #oilandgas

Safe As podcast 30: A better way to think about procedures - resources for action open.spotify.com/episode/4bkX... #safety #patientsafety #oilandgas

Proposal for and validation of novel risk-based process to reduce the risk of construction site fatalities (Major Accident Prevention (MAP) program) safetyinsights.org/2025/09/03/p... #safety #mining #construction