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Hi, I regularly review and summarise scientific research on safety, safety science, organisational performance, psychology, and major accidents
Don Norman: While 5% of accidents due to human error is believable, 95% isn't. It must be a "design problem" safetyinsights.org/2025/11/29/9... #design #humanfactors #ergonomics #HCD #safety
95% of accidents due to human error is implausible – more likely a design problem: Don Norman
Apt reflections from Don Norman about error. While he could believe that 1 to 5% of accidents may primarily result from human error, a claim of 75-95% is implausible. If the percentage is so high, …
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November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Don Norman: While 5% of accidents due to human error is believable, 95% isn't. It must be a "design problem" safetyinsights.org/2025/11/29/9... #design #humanfactors #ergonomics #HCD #safety
This study found #ESG reporting associated with reduced disabling injuries, and the effects were stronger with more diverse boards
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/25/t... #diversity #sustainability #safety
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/25/t... #diversity #sustainability #safety
The Role of ESG Performance in Reducing Occupational Accidents: The Moderating Effect of Board Diversity
The Role of ESG Performance in Reducing Occupational Accidents: The Moderating Effect of Board Diversity This explored the links between ESG performance and occupational accidents, and the effect o…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This study found #ESG reporting associated with reduced disabling injuries, and the effects were stronger with more diverse boards
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/25/t... #diversity #sustainability #safety
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/25/t... #diversity #sustainability #safety
Knowledge in the head vs the world: And how to design for cognition from Don Norman 'Design of Everyday Things' safetyinsights.org/2025/11/23/k... #design #humanfactors #ux #ui #tech
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Knowledge in the head vs the world: And how to design for cognition from Don Norman 'Design of Everyday Things' safetyinsights.org/2025/11/23/k... #design #humanfactors #ux #ui #tech
"Artificial intelligence fails to outperform orthopaedic surgeons", but does outperform surgeons in many other tasks
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/21/a... #ai #LLM #tech
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/21/a... #ai #LLM #tech
Artificial intelligence fails to outperform orthopaedic surgeons: A systematic review
This compared AI performance to orthopaedic surgeons within clinical practice and training. It’s a systematic review with 16 studies being included. As far as I can, most (all?) studies used ChatGP…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Artificial intelligence fails to outperform orthopaedic surgeons", but does outperform surgeons in many other tasks
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/21/a... #ai #LLM #tech
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/21/a... #ai #LLM #tech
Safe As podcast: Diving into a process of safety decluttering - where clutter is the safety work, procedures, activities etc. that don't contribute to operational safety
open.spotify.com/episode/3bFa... #safety #clutter #risk
open.spotify.com/episode/3bFa... #safety #clutter #risk
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Safe As podcast: Diving into a process of safety decluttering - where clutter is the safety work, procedures, activities etc. that don't contribute to operational safety
open.spotify.com/episode/3bFa... #safety #clutter #risk
open.spotify.com/episode/3bFa... #safety #clutter #risk
Don Norman: "Eliminate the term human error. Instead, talk about [how people and machines] communicat[e] and [interact]"
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/22/h... #ai #design #humanfactors #ux #ui
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/22/h... #ai #design #humanfactors #ux #ui
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Don Norman: "Eliminate the term human error. Instead, talk about [how people and machines] communicat[e] and [interact]"
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/22/h... #ai #design #humanfactors #ux #ui
safetyinsights.org/2025/11/22/h... #ai #design #humanfactors #ux #ui
Can stronger system design = weaker human insights? Gary Klein - Seeing What Others Don't safetyinsights.org/2025/11/09/c... #Systems
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…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Can stronger system design = weaker human insights? Gary Klein - Seeing What Others Don't safetyinsights.org/2025/11/09/c... #Systems
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
E.g., AI makes us perform better—but also think we’re above average.
safetyinsights.org/2025/10/31/a... #artificial_intelligence
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’…
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October 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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
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
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October 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"No clear conclusions can be extracted regarding the relationship between psychological safety and patient safety" #patientsafety #healthcare #psychologicalsafety
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Short and long-term effects of interactivity in immersive virtual reality training for occupational safety safetyinsights.org/2025/10/12/s... #safety #VR #simulation
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…
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October 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Short and long-term effects of interactivity in immersive virtual reality training for occupational safety safetyinsights.org/2025/10/12/s... #safety #VR #simulation
“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...
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…
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October 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“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
October 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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 safetyinsights.org/2025/10/06/s... #safety #safetyculture #ohs #culture
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:…
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October 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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 safetyinsights.org/2025/10/05/l... #healthcare #ai #llm #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…
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October 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Large Language Models in Lung Cancer: Systematic Review safetyinsights.org/2025/10/05/l... #healthcare #ai #llm #patientsafety
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
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…
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October 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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
"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
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…
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September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"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 - 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
safetyinsights.org/2025/09/27/1... #safety #risk #accident
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 – …
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September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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
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
September 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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
September 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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” 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
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…
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September 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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