PreAccident Investigation Podcast

May 22, 23, and 24, 2018 in Denver, Colorado we will be having an open workshop just for you!
May 22 - The Fundimentals of Human Performance and New Safety
May 23 - Learning Teams - Now You Can Excell in Operational Learning
May 24 - Fatalities and Serious Injuries - A Deep Dive into a new way of thinking about serious events.
You may attend one, two, or all three workshops.  
Interested?   Contact Officetoddconklin@gmail.com
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Erik Hollnagel was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds an M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Copenhagen, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Aarhus (Denmark).
Erik Hollnagel is presently Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Senior Professor at Jönköping Academy, Sweden. Erik is also Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University (Australia), Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University (Australia), Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universitat München (Germany), and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University (LIU), Sweden. Prior to that he has held the following positions:
Chief Consultant at the Centre for Quality Improvement, Region of Southern Denmark (2011-2017).
Professor and Industrial Safety Chair at MINES ParisTech (formerly École des Mines de Paris), France (2006-2011).
Visiting professor (Professor II) at the Department of Industrial economics and technology management (IØT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim,Norway.
Professor of Human-Machine Interaction at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Linköping, Sweden. (1999-2006/2008)
Visiting professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Linköping, Sweden. (1997-1999)
Principal Advisor, OECD Halden Reactor Project, Halden, Norway. (1995-1999)
Technical Director, Human Reliability Associates Ltd., Dalton, Lancashire, UK. (1993-1995)
Senior researcher, Department Manager, and later Principal Scientist, Computer Resources International, Copenhagen, Denmark. (1985-1993)
Associate professor, Psychological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (1985-1986)
Head of Man-Machine Interaction Research Division, OECD Halden Reactor Project, Halden, Norway. (1982-1985)
Research fellow, Risø National Laboratory, Electronics Department, Roskilde, Denmark. (1978-1982)
Associate professor (lektor), Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. (1971-1978)
Computer programmer. I/S Datacentralen af 1959, Copenhagen, Denmark. (1962-1968)
Erik Hollnagel is an internationally recognised specialist in the fields of resilience engineering, system safety, human reliability analysis, cognitive systems engineering, and intelligent man-machine systems. He is the author of more than 500 publications including twenty-two books, articles from recognised journals, conference papers, and reports.
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Not knowing is not a good place for you or your organization to be...  
It is always better to know ...   do the things you should do.  Don't do the things you should not do...
This is a great little podcast episode.
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I had a glitch in the first pressing of this podcast.   Here is the whole conversation.  Sorry about the RSS feed and the confusion.   I think this will fix the technical problem.
Dr. Scott A. Shappell is a Department Chair and Professor of Human Factors at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Before joining the faculty at Embry-Riddle, Dr. Shappell was a professor of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University. Prior to being on the faculty at Clemson, he was the Human Factors Research Branch Manager at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute.
In addition, Dr. Shappell served over 16 years in the U.S. Navy as an Aerospace Experimental Psychologist. He has published and presented well over 200 papers, books, and presentations in the fields of accident investigation, system safety, spatial disorientation, sustained operations and fatigue. Dr. Shappell received a B.S. in psychology (1983) from Wright State University graduating Summa Cum Laude with honors in psychology and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1990.
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Change, even for the better, can often cause discomfort.
This little discussion talks about this very idea.
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I use the work capacity like it has meaning that everyone on earth already knows.  
I know now that is not true...
Here is my definition of the word "Capacity."
Remember, Safety is not the absence of an accident, safety is the presence of capacity.
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Nothing is better than a good discussion.
We will always have some folks that want to push back on our ideas.
That is good.
You won't win them all.
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After the final day of the 2018 HOP Conference in Houston, Texas, Several of us were sitting around the kitchen table in our little house chatting about how the conference activities went this year.
We liked the time we had together and decided to record this event.
You are invited to join us.  Pull up a chair and chat a while.
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Ty Maxism are sayings that operations people live by in parts far north from here.
Never underestimate the power that operational leaders have in understanding the work and the workers - good leaders know thier people.
Ty just tends to drop this little nuggets in to the conversation.  I always listen for them.
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I really struggled to make this podcast.  Not because I didn't have stuff to say (I always seem to have stuff to say) but because I was afraid I would make people angry.
I think that is a stupid reason to not do a podcast.
I hope this makes people angry - although I softened this message a lot before I posted this message.  
We need to let go of our need to blame somebody for not predicting these events and start to really talk about a system prevention to this very unique problem we have in the United States.
Our need to blame is getting in the way of our ability to improve.
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