Safety Insights

Can stronger system design = weaker human insights? Gary Klein – Seeing What Others Don’t Can better design limit our insights? More extracts from Gary Klein’s ‘Seeing What Others don’t’. This covers some unintended consequences of ‘good’ principles of computer system/info system design…

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

When insights do or don’t emerge – extracts from Gary Klein Extracts from Gary Klein’s ‘Seeing What Others Don’t’, about how insights and intuitions emerge, or don’t. Based on cases examined by Klein: ·        Insight…

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

AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition Cool study which explored how AI affects a person’s metacognitive judgements. Thanks to Professor Erwin for sharing this. Tl;dr: ·        AI improved a user’…

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 This tested Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) on “proactive safety behaviours and their antecedents”. They argue that the efficacy of IVR depends on the implementation quality, which depends on immer…

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

Psychological Distress and Post-Traumatic Symptoms Following Occupational Accidents What are the psychological consequences of physical work incidents? 38 occupationally injured persons matched against 38 none injured. Background: ·      Prior work&nb…

“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 Review study of the evidence underpinning ‘safety culture’ maturity models. 17 studies were included. Tl;dr: the evidence supporting that they actually do what they purport to do, is limited. Note:…

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 This systematic review of 28 studies explored the application of LLMs for lung cancer care and management. Probably few surprises here. And it’s focused mostly on LLMs, rather than specialise…

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

From transcript to insights: Summarizing safety culture interviews with LLMs From transcript to insights: summarizing safety culture interviews with LLMs How well does OpenAI o1 work for summarising ‘safety culture’ interviews, and how does it compare to human notes? This s…

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

Safety-I Versus Safety-II: A Mixed-Methods Study Revealing the Imbalance of Approaches in Primary Care Medication Safety Extracts from a paper that studied medication safety in primary care from both a Safety-I and Safety-II lens – using “medication management in the wild” as their data. ·    &nbs…

"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 ‘Re-Imagining Risk Assessment’ Another extract from Marcin’s book ‘Learning from Normal Work’. These extracts come from the chapter about how we can expand the imagination of the risk assessment – …

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” according to the independent commission Gotta love these really poetic parts of major accident inquiries…This from the Fukushima independent commission:”What must be admitted – very painfully – is that this was a disaster “Ma…

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

Improving the Risk Matrix for Supply Chain Risk Management This paper discusses risk matrices (RMs) for supply chain risk management (SCRM). It was meant to be just a few dot-points, but…here we are. Extracts: ·       &nb…

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

Inherent Flaws in Risk Matrices May Preclude Them From Being Best Practices Are some risk matrices too inherently flawed to be considered as best practice? This discussion paper explored some critical flaws. Extracts: ·        &#8220…

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 incident a one off issue or systemic system flaws? Was your last incident a one-off occurrence or systemic failure? Two extracts discussing this theme – first from Greg Smith (Proving Safety), and then Desai Link (‘Beyond the Incident’), who expand…

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

Impact of Project Complexity on Construction Safety Performance: Moderating Role of Resilient Safety Culture This study explored the adverse impacts that project complexity have on safety performance and the moderating role played by a resilient safety culture in the construction sector. Structural equati…

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: Accidents due to human error is about as useful as saying falls are due to gravity “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”. Some of the classic, and well-known…

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