This episode unpacks findings from the recent Maritime NZ / Port of Auckland case, where a CEO was charged under due diligence offences.

It offers an enlightening perspective on work-as-done, night shift work, critical controls and more.

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This quickisode dives into some key human-centred design terms from the GOAT, Don Norman.

The source is: Norman, D. (2013). The design of everyday things.

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Few would disagree that blame negatively impacts learning.

However, can efforts to promote 'no blame' approaches also carry their own negative and unintended impacts on learning and improvement?

Today's article is: Sherratt, F., Thallapureddy, S., Bhandari, S., Hansen, H., Harch, D., & Hallowell, M. R. (2023). The unintended consequences of no blame ideology for incident investigation in the US construction industry. Safety science, 166, 106247.

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Are our incident reporting systems providing accurate reflections of incidents and severity, or blinkered, highly selective views disconnected from actual injury severities?

Today's article: Geddert, K., Dekker, S., & Rae, A. (2021). How does selective reporting distort understanding of workplace injuries?. Safety, 7(3), 58.

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How can we apply the dark arts of Human Factors to write better procedures? Let's find out.

Today's source is: HPOG (2021). Best Practice in Procedure Formatting.

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What are the types and mechanisms of investigator bias, and what are some proposed debiasing methods and improvements?

Today's article: MacLean, C. L. (2022). Cognitive bias in workplace investigation: Problems, perspectives and proposed solutions. Applied Ergonomics, 105, 103860.

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Investigations are reputed to be 'fact finding' exercises: objective searches for facts and truth.

How what role does investigator bias play in constructing the incident findings?

Today's article is: MacLean, C. L., & Dror, I. E. (2023). Measuring base-rate bias error in workplace safety investigators. Journal of safety research, 84, 108-116.

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This quickisode unpacks the 4D method for learning: Dumb, Dangerous, Different, Difficult.

The source is Sutton et al. 2023. 4Ds for HOP and Learning Teams: A practical how-to guide to facilitate learning from everyday work, critical and dynamic risks with the 4Ds.

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