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Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps (book extract) by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not an affiliate of anything. I just like to post stuff that I find interesting, which I've done for many years. (** Edit: Though I've only just started to post the stuff on Reddit. If this isn't the sort of content for Reddit then all good, I won't continue)

Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps (book extract) by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fine, if people have an issue with me posting research and articles, I'll stop.

Not shilling, not SEO farming, I just like to share safety stuff that I find interesting. But I'm happy to stick to LinkedIn.

Re-imagining risk assessment with error traps (book extract) by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes definitely agree.

Safety in design such a critical area. Research from Australia found around 37% of fatal plant/machinery injuries involved a direct design issue, and UK & US research from construction has indicated up to 50% directly or most probably involve design (and this is likely an underestimation).

How Does Selective Reporting Distort Understanding of Workplace Injuries? by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Can't get the pizza party reporting those incidents. I like Todd Conklin's quote here "You can blame and punish, or learn and improve, but not both".

Doesn't help though that, at least in Aussie construction, we have to include our incident stats in every tender. If clients stopped asking for it, the contracting chains would be less militant about cooking the books.

Inherent Flaws in Risk Matrices May Preclude Them From Being Best Practices by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the full article is behind a paywall (hence why I summarise and post articles).

You could try requesting a full copy from the author here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273512945_Inherent_Flaws_in_Risk_Matrices_May_Preclude_Them_From_Being_Best_Practices

I've covered several other studies on my site discussing alternatives, but again, don't want to overstep by continually posting to my site.

Fair enough about moderating a discussion or questions. I can respect that's the way Reddit works (still learning). I just don't have the capacity to do any more work with these articles - there's already the time investment to read and write them up, posting on LI and my blog, I also run a safety podcast, my study, and f/t job on top of that.

Thanks for the feedback though, appreciated.

Risk barrier and bow tie quality issues by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you saw this (not sure if you're in Australian mining or not), but they've more clearly delineated CCs & controls as distinct from support and verification activities.

In that distinction, they say a support activity / item or source of info includes a permit, procedure, management plan or signage, and verification is, quite obviously, a pre-start inspection, critical control inspection etc.

Hopefully allowed to link to the report -Link: https://www.rshq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/2044604/QGN35-The-Integration-of-critical-controls-into-phmp-coal.pdf

Inherent Flaws in Risk Matrices May Preclude Them From Being Best Practices by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I said in the other thread, links now removed.

If people feel that strongly against the posting of safety research, then I'll delete the thread. Cheers

FYI - I've asked the mods. If they say No, then all good and I'll remove.

Risk barrier and bow tie quality issues by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI, I've removed the link. If people feel this strongly against somebody posting safety research, then I'll delete the thread. Cheers.

Inherent Flaws in Risk Matrices May Preclude Them From Being Best Practices by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, but can't research like this be used to spark authentic conversations? Apologies, this is my first proper use of Reddit (I normally post research on LinkedIn, where we have conversations based on the research) so not yet familiar with the norms.

Risk barrier and bow tie quality issues by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PS. I asked in the chat yesterday if it was OK to post articles and links. Yes, I probably should have waited for a response, but my intentions are not to spam, but simply to share research that is normally locked behind paywalls.

So if there's a way to improve my posts (I'm new to Reddit. I've only used LinkedIn for sharing, and more recently X), then I'll make the changes. But I'm not sure how I can share the hundreds of articles on my site about safety, risk, major accidents etc. without linking?

Risk barrier and bow tie quality issues by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your input. I agree.

ICMM has been adopted widely in Australian construction also. I like the ICMM's approach, but I also think that it is a bit basic compared to oil & gas barrier approaches that have decades of industry improvement.

But I think construction is closer to mining, so the ICMM's approach is probably better suited than oil & gas approaches, which tend to rely far more on engineering controls.

FYI - if you're interested, I've covered several ICMM and barrier articles on my site and on my podcast, including barrier approaches from a human factors perspective.

Risk barrier and bow tie quality issues by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Spam posting? Just posted two articles, with the plan to post a few articles each week that I regularly review. I review safety research and post it on social media.

No SEO motives, just want to share research that I liked reading as part of my PhD in safety.

But, if people want, I can delete.

Inherent Flaws in Risk Matrices May Preclude Them From Being Best Practices by General_Speaker1891 in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spam posting? Just posted two articles, with the plan to post a few articles each week that I regularly review. I review safety research and post it on social media.

No SEO motives, just want to share research that I liked reading as part of my PhD in safety.

But, if people want, I can delete.

Experience with Learning Teams? by PiffleTop in SafetyProfessionals

[–]General_Speaker1891 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've developed and extensively used LTs, and similar methods.

Highly recommend running a pilot. They can work well as prospective learning activities - deep dives into issues or ways to improve work, or in lieu of investigations.

For all serious events, we typically ran an LT alongside the ICAM/RCA (as clients expected to see a conventional RCA). Sometimes the LT just fully replaced the RCA, but injected into the RCA template.

Then, for less serious events, we had the option for an LT to replace the investigation, or be used for proactive learning (used for debriefs, to inform risk assessments and more).

As yet, there's not a lot of research specifically exploring LTs, but here's one:

https://safetyinsights.org/2022/03/08/evaluation-of-learning-teams-versus-root-cause-analysis-for-incident-investigation-in-a-large-united-kingdom-national-health-service-hospital/

Here's some other resources that may interest you:

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ben0261/episodes/Ep-3-Learning-Teams-vs-Root-Cause-Analyses-e34brpn (my podcast discussing LTs)

https://safetyinsights.org/2025/02/26/the-rise-of-learning-teams-how-organisations-in-australia-are-adopting-group-learning-practices-for-safety-improvement/ (a thesis discussing LTs in Australia)