Applying Systems thinking to better understand organisational safety
Learning the lessons of previous process disasters is an important goal for…
Thinking…
Several weeks ago we looked at the line of thinking that most of human progress has occurred through automation of tasks. There is a down side to automation that is often not considered, at least…
Many significant process incidents result from the crossover where automation fails and human operators are unable to take over and understand the unfolding events fast enough to avoid disaster.
