How do you consider the role of people within your barrier or critical control system - threat or adaptable strength?

What are some fallacies of human performance, like being unreliable bad apples, and how best to incorporate the strengths of people, while limiting performance variability?

Today's paper is from McLeod, R. W. (2017). Human factors in barrier management: Hard truths and challenges. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 110, 31-42.

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Are our use of reported injury measures, like TRIFR or LTIFR, 'good enough' representations, or beset with foundational statistical flaws?

Today's report is from Hallowell et al., 2020, titled 'The Statistical Invalidity of TRIR as a Measure of Safety Performance'. From the CSRA.

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Are our safety myths--like most accidents being the result of human error--holding back genuine improvement within safety?

Can myths like these actually hamper learning, and increase operational risk?

Today's article is from Besnard, D., & Hollnagel, E. (2014). I want to believe: some myths about the management of industrial safety. Cognition, Technology & Work, 16, 13-23.

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