Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Sidney Dekker recently published an essay * in which he argues that industrial accidents don’t just pop out of nowhere; rather they could ha...

Source: Clipart Panda Our August 6, 2019 post discussed the appalling incidence of preventable harm in healthcare settings.  We suggest...

Why? Sidney Dekker recently revisited * some interesting research he led at a large health care authority.  The authority’s track record...

All of you have heard of “Just Culture” (JC).  At heart, it is an attitude toward investigating and explaining errors that occur in organi...

We recently read Sidney Dekker’s 2014 paper * on the bureaucratization of safety in organizations.  It’s interesting because it describes ...

AcciMap Excerpt We recently read a paper* that echoes some of the themes we emphasize on Safetymatters, viz., leadership, decisions and ...

This book* discusses two different ways of conceptualizing safety performance problems (e.g., near-misses, incidents and accidents) and sa...

Most of us associate psychologist James Reason with the “Swiss Cheese Model” of defense in depth or possibly the notion of a “just cu...

A recent white paper * presents ten principles to consider when thinking about a complex socio-technical system, specifically European Ai...