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

The Safety of Work

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Safety Is Not About Controls

Rusison talks about defencin depth. He says that any system designed according to this defence in depth, wer ave, got these multiple controls in this big safety margin, will always systematically degenerate. The whole idea here is that safety is not about avoiding being at the boundary. Being at the boundary is inevitable. You are going to be pushed up against the boundary of acceptable performance. How do you operate once you get there? So how much of a buffer is there between the l virtual boundary that you're not goig to let people go across, and the actual boundary where the risk starts to escalate very quickly)? Your people can be hurt even when you're not at

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