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Ep.87 What exactly is Systems Thinking?

The Safety of Work

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The Big Problem With Safety

Drue: There is a clash of domains and world views between the engineering sciences and the human sciences. She suggests that there are three options for why major accidents keep happening. The first one is that in analyzing the accidents, we're not truly discovering the underlying causes. Second possibility is just that learning from experience doesn't work like it's supposed to. And third possibility is that system s are becoming more complex,. We always need to abstract and simplify but if we do that in the right way, it helps us.

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