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Ep.87 What exactly is Systems Thinking?

The Safety of Work

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Is There a Root Cause for Safety Incidents?

There's still this desire for root cause. And i think true with incident investigation like this. We can have a log and we have had lump od casts on this, and safety work idea in terms of just organization wanting a simple, clean answer. But the principle that nancy said at the start, which is, we're never actually fixing the causes of what's actually happening in the business. Yes. The particular events involved are somewhat irrelevant. If those events had not occurred, something else would have led to the loss. This belief arises from too narrow a view of the causal time line systems are not static. Rather than accidents in a chance occurrence of multiple independent events, they intend to

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