Sharp & Blunt End

Jade Garratt · Politics, Diversity & Equity, Power, Safety & Human Error

Introduces the sharp end / blunt end distinction from safety science to education and other high-stakes contexts. Argues that decisions made at the blunt end (policy, governance, inspection) shape the conditions at the sharp end (classroom, ward, cockpit) — and that those connections are rarely visible to decision-makers.

Neighbours (11)

• Risk Management in a Dynamic Society: A Modelling Problem (paper)
• The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (paper)
• Working in Practice But Not in Theory: Theoretical Challenges of "High-Reliability Organizations" (paper)
• Local Rationality
• Resilience and Precarious Success (paper)
• Typologies of Power
• HOP
• Leadership in Healthcare (CRM)
• PS in Education
• Safer to Fail in Teaching
• Safety, Stat!