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Ep.86 Do we have adequate models of accident causation?

The Safety of Work

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Is There a Capacity Conversation?

Human behavior is shaped by objectives and constraints. There's always going to be this natural migagration of activity towards the boundary of acceptable performance. And so in doing my work, what is acceptable? What's an acceptable standard for my work? The objectives kind of match or not matchin with the resources that are available. That'll push the work towards the error margin, or the margin toward safety. So it is, quite simply, if you've got too much, too much and and not enough supply in terms of resource, then you will not be able to maintain those safety margins and have an incident - at least true. If there was constant pressure on every single project around the world

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