Safety Differently – Innovative and Critical Safety Thinking in HOP (Human and Organizational Performance)

One of the missing pieces in our theory and research on safety differently has been what it means for the role of safety…

By Dr Todd Conklin

The other day I was observing a medical first aid class, and the instructor was discussing the signs and symptoms of heart attacks….

Some of you may have heard this already from one source or another, but I am stepping away from running the SafetyDifferently.com site….

Risk and Safety Conference 2019

When the FAA embraced Safety Management System (SMS), we all joined in with an understanding of shared responsibility, we did not consider social…

Let’s go back some 18 years in time. The local time was 03.10. I was standing my watch as a Second Officer on…

When General Stanley McChrystal took over the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command[1] (JSOC) in Iraq during the mid-2000s, he inherited an organisation struggling…

After the Parkland, Fl., school shooting February 14, 2018 the nation’s anger focused for a while on then-school resource officer Scot Peterson, who…

At a recent conference I attended, there was a paper describing an attempt to “manage” the risks involved in rock climbing. This highlighted…