Monday, March 17, 2014

Moving towards Safety-II: ensuring thing go right

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High lights from an article in The Ergonomist March 2014 by Steven Shorrock and Tony Licu.  A far more in-depth 'White paper' is a...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Thinking, fast and slow

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BBC Horizon 'How do we really make decisions?'  originally aired on BBC 2 on 24 February 2014 Referred to a lot from the book by ...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Expert witnesses

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Notes from a presentation by Alex Sandland of Dyne Solicitors Limited An expert is: * Suitably qualified - possessing suitable professi...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care

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SHOTS by Richard Knox 27 January 2014 Analysis at Boston Medical Center found that 7 North was experiencing 12,000 alarms ­a day , on av...

Rules, Regulations, Policies and Practices (RRPP) - learning from Costa Concordia

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MaineLink.com by Geoffrey Gill 12 March 2013 It is important we learn from the Costa Concordia accident.  But new lessons are unlikely t...

Human Centric Design: How Pushback From the FDA Is Driving Innovation

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WIRED by Reade Harpham of Battelle Humanic Centric Design 29 January 2014 The following exert from IEC 62366:2007 is being credited with...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Pilots Rely Too Much on Automation

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The Wall Street Journal by Andy Pasztor 17 November 2013 Many Aviators Have Difficulty Manually Flying Planes, Study Commissioned by F...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Problems with training

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A couple of links picked up from Twitter today about the limitations of training. The surprising science of workplace training htt...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Tributes paid to Trevor Kletz

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From IChemE 1 November 2013 IChemE president Judith Hackitt has paid tribute to safety pioneer Trevor Kletz who passed away yesterday at...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

RAF Valley helicopter technical issues 'delayed ship rescue'

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BBC Website 22 May 2013 The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) issued a number of recommendations after the MV Carrier ran agr...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Size of the matter – offshore ergonomics prepares for an overhaul

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Offshore Technology by Heidi Vella 22 April 2013 A new study measuring the size of offshore oil and gas workers' bodies is currently...

Wrexham call centre staff fly to New Zealand to cover night shifts

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BBC Website 2 May 2013 Call centre staff from Wrexham are taking turns to live in New Zealand to cover night shifts back home in the UK...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Uncovering the unknown

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The Chemical Engineer, March 2013 by Richard Gowland The European Process Safety Centre (EPSC) has been looking at events such as BP Texa...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Sat-nav mix up leaves pupils in Towyn not Tywyn

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BBC Website 19 April 2013 A sat-nav mix up left a coach load of school pupils almost 80 miles from home after a trip to Paris. The chi...
Monday, April 08, 2013

10 Very Costly Typos

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Mental Floss by Jennifer Wood on 8 April 2013 1. NASA’S MISSING HYPHEN The damage: $80 million A single dash led to absolute failure...
Monday, February 11, 2013

John E Karlin "Father of Human Factors Engineering" dies

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Core77 design 11 February 2013 You may not know his name, but you know his work. John E. Karlin, who passed away in late January, essen...
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Friday, February 08, 2013

Super Bowl blackout was caused by electrical relay

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San Francisco Chronicle 8 February 2013 by Kevin McGill The power failure cut lights to about half of the stadium, halting play and inte...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Man allegedly follows GPS directions to wrong house; shot dead

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CNET 29 January 2013 by Chris Matyszczyk Friends say a man in his early 20s was picking up one more of their group to go skating, when ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer (low risk but frequent activity)

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The New York Times 28 January 2013 by Jared Diamond The other morning, I escaped unscathed from a dangerous situation. No, an armed rob...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Ergonomics in the workplace

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SSI Schafer 23 January 2013 by Dr Max Winkler Article is actually titled "Why ergonomics makes a difference in warehouse logistics....
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Few Savings From Digital Health Records

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The New York Times 10 January 2013 by Reed Abelson and Julie Creswsell The conversion to electronic health records has failed so far to ...