Thursday, June 24, 2010

Polution Prevention Guidelines PPG21

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I was given a link to the updated guidelines on the Environment Agency Website . Although I don't do a lot of purely environmental wor...
Monday, June 21, 2010

HSE Human Factors Roadmap

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Recently released by the Health and Safety Executive and available at their website The document presents a graphical framework explaining...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Group Challenges Proposed Limits on Vial Labeling

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Article by Erik Greb on PharmTech.com on 10 June 2010 US Pharmacopeia’s (USP’s) Nomenclature Expert Committee has proposed that printin...

Just How Risky Are Risky Businesses?

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A post on Carl Bialik Number Guy blog on 11 June 2010 considers the role of quantified risk assessment in light of the TransOcean disaster....
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ITV HD goal miss with adverts blamed on human error

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According to Kate McMahon in The Mirror on 14 June 2010 Stephen Gerard scored a goal for England after about 4 minutes in the World Cup g...

Windscreen water infection risk

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Article on the BBC website by Emma Wilkinson on 13 June 2010 The Health Protection Agency has been studying Legionnaires' Disease and...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Organising events with risks

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There is a concern across companies and the wider community that health and safety is stopping people from doing things that are worthwhile ...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Oil rig culture can breed mistakes

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Article by John Hofmeister in the Calgary Herald on 9 June 2010 Reflecting on the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill. He points out ...
Monday, June 07, 2010

IBM distributes virus-laden USB keys at security conference

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Article by Asher Moses in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 May 2010 IBM distributed a virus-laden USB keys to attendees at Australia's ...

Crisis response time measurement

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Blog post at Houppermans on 28 April 2010 Here is a simple guide to measure your response time to a crisis: 1. Take a copy of your b...

Video of an early ergonomics study

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This is an excerpt from a half hour documentary on the life and work of Frank Gilbreth. Gilbreth lived at the turn of the last century and w...

Human error at meat plants gives UK beef farmers an annual £14m bonus

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Article by Andrew Forgrave in the Daily Post on 18 May 2010 Trials of Video Image Analysis (VIA) show the machines are more accurate than...

How You Work Can Affect How You Feel

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Article by Dr. Jennifer Yang on Health News Digest on 18 May 2010. It provides a good summary of typical health and medical problems caus...

BA - 'stalinist' bosses and safety concerns

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Simon Calder writing in The Independent on 29 May 2010 Safety has been one of the issues raised during the long running dispute at British...

Writing a good checklist

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My last post from Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Bad checklists are vague, imprecise, too long, hard to use and impractical. They ar...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

More checklists

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More from Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Gawande uses a number of non-medical examples to illustrate the role of checklists. The K...

The origin of checklists

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As promised sometime ago, I have summarised parts from the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Gawande traces the use of checklists back ...
Monday, May 03, 2010

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

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I was recommended this book by an old colleague/friend. I have to day I was a little sceptical and was not full with great confidence by the...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Basic human body measurements for technological design

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ISO/TR 7250-2:2010 has been published providing statistical summaries of body measurements together with database background information for...
Monday, April 12, 2010

‘Alarm fatigue’ linked to patient’s death

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Article at boston.com by Liz Kowalczyk on 3 April 2010 Investigations into the death have concluded that desensitization to alarms was a f...

Derailment of London Dockland Light Railway train, 10 Mar 2009

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The report from the Rail Accident Investigation Board (RAIB) has been published and is available for download I've taken this summary fr...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Ergotron Intros New Sit-Stand Mobile Computer Workstation

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Article at TMCnet.com by Brendan B. Read on 25 February 2010 It starts by saying "Ergonomics experts have long known that enabling emp...

Why did Ethiopian flight ET409 crash and who is at fault?

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Partner and Head of the Aviation Department of that firm, Attorney James Healy-Pratt, answered a number of questions related to this crash, ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Recent calculation errors

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There have been a few reports in the press recently where calculation errors have led to spectacular claims. They include: The Intergovernme...

Nodar Kumaritashvili dies at winter olypics

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There will be many articles about the tragic death of Nodar whilst practising the luge at the Vancouver winter Olympics. This blog from Jam...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Five ways ergonomics has shaped your life

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Article from the BBC Website by Megan Lane on 18 November 2009 They are 1. Behind the wheel - making sure people of all shapes and sizes ca...

BBC Shipping forecast error

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Article in The Register by Lewis Page on 25 November 2009 Parts of the first shipping forecast transmitted on Sunday November 15 - specific...

1989 changes to Tyson plant still benefit workers today

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On Siouxland's News website 24 November 2009 Changes to ergonomics made at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant, in Dakota City, Nebraska, nearl...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Fears over care-home drug errors

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Article on BBC website by Nick Triggle 5 October 2009 University of London researchers found seven in 10 elderly people living in care home...

Driving factors and challenges in the development of unmanned combat air vehicles

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Article on the Defence professionals wbesite on 5 October 2009. Discusses the increased use of unmanned military planes. One point made is ...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Electoral Commission rebuffs GLA plans for e-counting

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Article in The Guardian by Charles Arthur 2 October 2009 The Greater London Council (GLA) have carried out a cost benefit analysis for usin...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Research proves MEWPs are most effective tool - report from Europlatform

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Article on Access International by Maria Hadlow on 17 Sep 2009 A review of work at height procedures up to 4.5 m for mechanical and electri...

Lighting upgrades enhance North Sea helicopter safety

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Article at Flight Global by Kieran Daly 22 September 2009 Helideck lighting has come to prominence as an unexpectedly high priority for pil...

Commonwealth Bank ATM in Queen St gave free cash to lucky customers

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Article in the MacArthur Chronicle by Ben Pike 22 September 2009 A bank's cash machine dispensed $50 notes instead of $20 notes because...

Computers can't replace pilots - yet, say experts

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Article taken from Flight International by David Learmont 24 September 2009 The term "pilot error" is greatly over-used, especial...

UK mother relives horror of Venezuelan plane crash that killed son

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Article at VH Headline , Venezuela 24 September 2009. A woman told an inquest of the terrifying moment when a plane she was flying in crashe...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Human error to blame in child's death

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Reported on a number of US news sites including Why Lincoln in an article by Matt McFarland on 25 July 2009. It took nearly half an hour fo...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

Problems with testing

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Article in the Palm Beach Post by Tom Blackburn 6 July 2009 Reports a case where fire fighters were selected for promotion based on a writt...
Friday, July 03, 2009

It's Management's Fault

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Article in Forbes by Kenneth G. Brill on 1 July 2009 Author claims that 10 years ago he "developed Brill's Law of Catastrophic Fai...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Use of shock horror pictures to promote safety

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This subject is debated quite often. I know that studies have shown that showing horrific pictures to people actually causes denial rather t...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Human Error Now The Big Killer

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Article on Strategy Page 19 June 2009. Pilot error is being identified more and more in military aircraft accidents. This is compared to co...

Accident risk up due to stress

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Article in Gulf News by Carol Spiers on 17 June 2009. The claim is that lots of industrial accidents which involved human error had more to...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Adequate Time Off Between Shifts a Key to Reducing Fatigue Risks

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Article on Ergoweb By Jennifer Anderson June 15, 2009 Circadian Technologies, a London consultancy, says the answer to reducing the risk of...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Medication Safety Tools and Resources

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A number of documents at The Institute of Safe Medication Practices website. Include * Error-Prone Abbreviations List * FMEA Process (wit...

Prevention of Medical Errors - Leveraging the power of science and compliance to prevent catastrophe

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Article on Advance web for LPNs website by Barbara L. Olson A lot of useful information in this article about human factors in general, an...

‘Human error’ blamed for 134 incorrect promotion notifications

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Article in the Stars and Stripes by Jeff Schogol on 8 June 2009 134 petty officers second class were incorrectly notified that they had bee...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Death by Human Error Trumps Technology Again

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Article on Live Science by Benjamin Radford 18 May 2009 I don't know if the author is trying to be controversial on purpose, but this i...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Wheels-up C-17 crash caused by pilot error

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Article in Airforce Times by Bruce Rolfsen 8 May 2009 A C-17 Globemaster military transport crash plane landed at Bagram Airfield in Afghan...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Report shows human error almost led to aircraft crash

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Article from 3 News in New Zealand, 30 April 2009 Emirates Airbus A340, which had originated in Auckland, was forced to make an emergency la...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Deadly business - who pays?

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Part 12 of a 'Special investigation' from Hazards magazine April 2009. It continues on from previous parts looking at workplace acc...