Safety & Human Error
This theme covers the safety science literature — human error typologies, normal accidents, resilience engineering, just culture, HOP — and what it tells us about why things go wrong and how psychological safety shapes whether those signals reach the people who could act on them.
Articles (53)
- Accountability
- Andon Cord
- Crew Resource Mgmt
- Local Rationality
- Normalisation of Deviance (Challenger)
- The Tenerife Disaster
- The Vasa Disaster
- Blametropism
- HOP
- Just Culture
- Learning from Error
- Learning Teams
- Parachutes & Evidence
- Psychological Safety in Healthcare
- Amagasaki Disaster
- Amplifying Weak Signals
- Chernobyl
- Civility Saves Lives
- Deming's 14 Points
- Dr Richard Cook
- Everest & PS
- Good Management Saves Lives
- HOP Core Principles
- Human Error & PS
- Leadership in Healthcare (CRM)
- Learning from Incidents
- Normal Accidents
- Paul O'Neill / Alcoa
- Plan Continuation Bias
- PS & Safeguarding
- PS in Aviation
- PS in Aviation (Special Edition)
- PSIRF
- Resilience Engineering
- Safe-to-Fail Wargames
- Safety I & Safety II
- Safety Work vs Safety of Work
- Sharp & Blunt End
- Swiss Cheese Model
- WAI vs WAD
- Categorising Failure
- Drive, Dissent & Checklists
- F**k-ups & Feedback
- Guardrails & Failure
- Learning Methods & Orgs
- Mining for Root Causes
- PACE Assertiveness
- PS in Teacher Meetings
- Retrospectives
- Safer to Fail in Teaching
- Safety Organised Criticality
- Zero Defects & PS
- Safety, Stat!