Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

A recent article * about how to reduce diagnostic errors in healthcare caught our attention, for a couple of reasons.  First, it describes a...

In her book*, Dr. Ofri takes a hard look at the prevalence of medical errors in the healthcare system.   She reports some familiar statistic...

Book cover Ray Dalio is the billionaire founder/builder of Bridgewater Associates, an investment management firm.  Principles * catalogs...

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 ...

We spent a little time poking around the McKinsey* website looking for items that could be related to safety culture and found a couple. ...

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...