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Learning from Incidents

Tom Geraghty · Safety & Human Error, Interpersonal Practice

A long-form story of a technology infrastructure incident — what happened, how the team responded, and how they'd prepared the conditions for learning before anything went wrong. Shows that incident learning is only possible where the social conditions for honesty already exist.

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