PhD human factors; Systems thinking, incident and effective workplace analysis. Enjoy outdoors, Tai Chi, laughs and exercise. Currently working HFE in rail.
Happy Late Late Monday Folks or Happy Tuesday for some! The topic for today in Human Factors & Systems Safety is Distributed Cognition. Here is a free paper on that topic from Edwin Hutchins.
https://t.co/jiOJDt4C9a
One of mine relates to DCog and is from a study where we were testing initial ideas around distributed situation awareness (DSA). Using our command and control sim, we explored the use of different combinations of media to support collaboration in a mission planning task
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See our HFEMSI virtual special issue, including the best articles from 2020 - 2022 all open access. The selection covers physical, cognitive, organisational, and systems HFE applications as well as critical issues for our discipline. Enjoy! https://t.co/3sXSaaZdQb #humanfactors
"Systems are not working out of the box...they have to be tweaked and tuned and coddled and stroked and kissed and prayed to, and you have to burn the right kind of incense in order to get your systems to run." Richard Cook #systemsthinking#systems#humanfactors#complexity
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@yorsafety I also wonder where is the "admirable" towards ZH for environmental damage? or toward ZH from bias? or perverse incentives (e.g., TRIFR KPI)? #towardszeroharmfromwhat
Quick question for all the hard working safety people. Does talking with a 'zero harmer' ever feel like arguing with a flat-earther or anti-vaxxer? Recent experience indicates sometimes yes.
@DrPaulSalmon Personal preference is as designed and minor adaptations as context/situation/audience requires (and write down mods). Have to be honest about why, what, how of change. Also, might be another method that does what I want so continiued learning important.