This quickisode jumps into the Walk-Through Talk-Through technique, used to collaborate with workers and learn about the challenges and error traps with tasks, and how to improve.

Source: Human Performance Oil & Gas. HPOG.org

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What if the paperwork that management come to rely on, rather than providing assurance of safe work methods, is more a ritual, disconnected from real work, or how people create safety in the field?

What if, in some cases, this paperwork creates a false sense of safety and indeed, masquerades as a false butt covering exercise?

Today's source is: Borys, D. (2009). Exploring risk-awareness as a cultural approach to safety: Exposing the gap between work as imagined and work as actually performed. Safety Science Monitor, 13(2), 1-11.

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How do the models of how we think about work reveal and conceal features of the work?

Today we explore varieties of human work: work-as-imagined, work-as-prescribed, work-as-disclosed, and work-as-done.

Source: Shorrock, S. (2016, December 5). The varieties of human work. Humanistic Systems.  https://humanisticsystems.com/2016/12/05/the-varieties-of-human-work/

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Imagine following a workplace fatality, that the weakest types of controls are implemented - administrative.

This episode unpacks some findings from the Brady review of Qld mining fatalities and what lessons we can apply from weak controls and repeat deaths.

Source: Brady, S. (2019). Review of all fatal accidents in Queensland mines and quarries from 2000 to 2019. Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy.

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How can we move beyond simple workplace hazards towards tackling risk from psychological and cultural cues in the workplace?

Today we unpack Rob Long's Workspace / Headspace / Groupspace risk semiotic to help mature our thinking.

Sources:

1. Safety Engagement with Workspace, Headspace and Groupspace. Rob Long, 2021, SafetyRisk . net

2. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF RISK TOOLS (2015). Human Dymensions

3. Workspace, Headspace, Groupspace. Rob Long, Vimeo . com

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What are the links between the magnitude of the energy within hazard exposures on subsequent injury severity and death?

Does more energy = higher chance of SIFs?

Source: Hallowell, M. R., Alexander, D., & Gambatese, J. A. (2017). Energy-based safety risk assessment: Does magnitude and intensity of energy predict injury severity?. Construction management and economics, 35(1-2), 64-77.

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This quickisode unpacks Ed Schein's concept of Humble Inquiry - said to be the "gentle art of asking instead of telling".

Source: Schein, E. H. (2013). Humble inquiry: The gentle art of asking instead of telling. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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What does the leadership language used by CEOs tell us about the priority and beliefs around safety and risk?

This episode unpacks a study exploring the BP CEO's speeches prior to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Source: Amernic, J., & Craig, R. (2017). CEO speeches and safety culture: British Petroleum before the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Critical perspectives on accounting, 47, 61-80.

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Does blame really solve nothing...or does it have some redeeming features?

Source: van Mourik, O., Grohnert, T., & Gold, A. (2023). Mitigating work conditions that can inhibit learning from errors: Benefits of error management climate perceptions. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1033470.

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This quickisode explores how resilience engineering - particularly enhancing resilient skills - can improve procedures.

Source: Saurin, T. A., Wachs, P., & Costella, M. F. (2015). Exploring synergies between the design of procedures and the development of resilience skills. In Proceedings of the 6th Resilience Engineering Symposium.

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