James Reason

Safety Thought of the Week… Active Failures (Unsafe Acts): A Brief Refresher (James Reason)

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Violations arise from motivational factors and fall into four types:routine (or corner-cutting) violations, thrill-seeking or optimizing violations, necessary violations and exceptional violations. Unsafe acts are of two distinct types: errors and violations. Errors arise from informational problems and fall into three categories: Everyone makes errors…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this...

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Safety Thought of the Week… are worker behaviors the problem?

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I know I made these mistakes in my early years. In the early 1990’s “Behavior Based Safety” was all the rage, and it had me “hook, line, and sinker.” Sometimes, I wish I was still in contact with some operators/maintenance tech who got the raw end of our (mostly mine) investigations and causal analysis so…...

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Learning Opportunity vs Discipline

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There’s a massive difference that may require massively different approaches in how we respond to failures in administrative controls such as LOTO. Scenario #1: a worker with less than a year of experience, is tasked with isolating a PRCS that has 29 isolation points. It was his first time to do this isolation and was…...

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Safety Thought of the Week… Reason’s “Swiss cheese” model of accident causation

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In memory of James Reason, I thought it would be fitting to share, in my professional opinion, one of the greatest safety models of my career. If businesses could just embrace this model when it comes to how they investigate events, we could move workplace safety forward a couple of decades. The model is quite…...

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