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Do you know the science behind what works and doesn’t work when it comes to keeping people safe in your organisation? Each week join Dr Drew Rae and Dr David Provan from the Safety Science I...
David and Drew unpack six organizational uses of injury metrics — from controlling work and motivating the workforce to self-promotion and r...
Drawing on Edmondson's extensive psychological safety research, the episode provides practical guidance for safety leaders seeking to improv...
The conversation explores how humor serves psychological purposes beyond entertainment, often functioning to establish power hierarchies and...
The discussion explores three critical constraint categories: structural elements like mandatory timelines, organizational factors including...
The findings reveal that invasiveness drives negative reactions more than the stated purpose of monitoring, with participants showing skepti...
The discussion centers on two key design principles: observability, which ensures humans can understand what automated systems are doing and...
You'll hear about BP's attempt to create a fairer process using eight new questions that focus more on system factors like management influe...
You’ll hear six key principles for effective behavioral substitution, drawing parallels between healthcare and safety contexts. They discuss...
The discussion challenges traditional views of supervision by emphasizing the importance of psychological safety and predictable relationshi...
Drawing on insights from business leaders and contemporary educational theory, we propose that effective safety professionals require both t...
In this discussion, we dissect various models of safety culture, scrutinizing how organizations perceive, measure, and manage these concepts...
From discussing mobile phone use while driving to the challenges of giving advice to older adults at risk of falls, this episode covers Chat...
We challenge the notion that high injury rates are punished by market forces, as we dig into this article that posits the opposite: that saf...
From the perceived control in everyday activities like driving, to the dread associated with nuclear accidents, we discuss how emotional res...
The discussion provides an in-depth examination of the principles of multimedia, modality, and redundancy, all of which are crucial for opti...
We examine whether a safe work environment truly enhances productivity and engagement or if it stifles business efficiency. Historical incid...
David and Drew share insights into Dr. Provan’s PhD research journey, exploring the scarce guidance and fragmented views within academic res...
Today’s paper, “Multiple Systemic Contributors versus Root Cause: Learning from a NASA Near Miss” by Katherine E. Walker et al, examines an...
Using the Waterfall incident as a striking focal point, we dissect the investigation and its aftermath, we share personal reflections on the...
Using the paper, “Digital Twins in Safety Analysis, Risk Assessment and Emergency Management.” by Zio and Miqueles, published in the technic...
Ben's expertise guides us through an analysis of audit reports and accident investigations, laying bare the counterfactual reasoning that of...
Safety isn't one-size-fits-all, especially for subcontractors who navigate multiple sites with varying rules and equipment. This episode pee...
Lastly, we delve into the role of leadership in addressing psychosocial hazards, the importance of standardized guidance for remote work, an...
The conversation stems from a review of a noteworthy paper from the Academy of Management Review Journal titled "The Paradox of Stretch Goal...
You’ll hear David and Drew delve into the often overlooked role of bias in accident investigations. They explore the potential pitfalls of d...
The research paper discussed is by Anita Tucker and Sarah Singer, titled "The Effectiveness of Management by Walking Around: A Randomised Fi...
The paper reviewed in this episode is from the Journal of Applied Psychology entitled, “A meta-analysis of personality and workplace safety:...
Show Notes - The Safety of Work - Ep. 109 Do safety performance indicators mean the same thing to different stakeholders Dr. Drew Rae and Dr...
This report details the full findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 w...
Summary: The purpose of the Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) Strategy 2023–2033 (the Strategy) is to outline a national vision for WH...
Baron's work focuses primarily on judgment and decision-making, a multi-disciplinary area that applies psychology to problems of ethical dec...
You’ll hear a little about Schein’s early career at Harvard and MIT, including his Ph.D. work – a paper on the experience of POWs during war...
You’ll hear some dismaying statistics around the validity of research papers in general, some comments regarding the peer review process, an...
In concert with the paper, we’ll focus on two major separate but related Boeing 737 accidents: Lyon Air #610 in October 2018 - The plane too...
The paper’s abstract reads: Healthcare systems are under stress as never before. An aging population, increasing complexity and comorbiditie...
The paper’s abstract reads: This paper reflects on the credibility of nuclear risk assessment in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. In...
The book explains Perrow’s theory that catastrophic accidents are inevitable in tightly coupled and complex systems. His theory predicts tha...
The paper’s abstract reads: The failure of 27 wildland firefighters to follow orders to drop their heavy tools so they could move faster and...
In 1939, Alfred Marrow, the managing director of the Harwood Manufacturing Corporation factory in Virginia, invited Kurt Lewin (a German-Ame...
This was very in-depth research within a single organization, and the survey questions it used were well-structured. With 48 interviews to p...
Just because concepts, theories, and opinions are useful and make people feel comfortable, doesn’t mean they are correct. No one so far has...
Assessing the Influence of “Take 5” Pre-Task Risk Assessments on Safety” by Jop Havinga, Mohammed Ibrahim Shire, and our own Andrew Rae. The...
The authors’ goal was to produce a scoring protocol for safety-focused leadership engagements that reflects the consensus of a panel of indu...
We will discuss the pros and cons of “Golden Safety Rules” and a punitive safety culture vs. a critical risk management approach, and analyz...
The paper results center on a survey sent to a multitude of French industries, and although the sampling is from only one country, 15 years...
We will go through each letter of the amusing and memorable acronym and give you our thoughts on ways to make sure each point is addressed,...
An excerpt from the paper’s abstract reads as follows: The proposition is based on theory about relationships between knowledge and power, c...
Wastell, who has a BSc and Ph.D. from Durham University, is Emeritus Professor in Operations Management and Information Systems at Nottingha...
While this paper was written over half a century ago, it is still relevant to us today - particularly in the Safety management industry wher...
We will review each section of Leveson’s paper and discuss how she sets each section up by stating a general assumption and then proceeds to...