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Safety Insights

@safetyinsights.bsky.social
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Hi, I regularly review and summarise scientific research on safety, safety science, AI, organisational performance, psychology, and major accidents

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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What happens when AI takes the creative parts of your work? This vid unpacks a study exploring the impact on work meaningfulness, autonomy, skill utilization and work identity. youtube.com/watch?v=U0KE... #ai #llm #artificialintelligence #work #psychology
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What Happens When AI Does the Best Part of Your Job?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
How to credibly specify human performance as a control? 1st, stop putting 'human error' as a threat in your bow-ties. 2nd, set realistic expectations. E.g. 'Human error' is where learning starts, not ends. youtu.be/Ly1mEn_KCLQ #criticalcontrol #safety #risk #processsafety
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Critical Controls & Barriers & Safeguard | Part 3: Human Factors & Human Performance
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Does it matter who manages daily 'safety'? Maybe. Per one study - accident rates worsened when business owners took control. So who's the better option - safety officers or employee reps? Check the video to find out #ohs #whs #safety youtube.com/watch?v=At_d...
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Is the Wrong Person Managing Your Safety?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Are the people in the middle of an organisation the least safe to speak up? Research from >1k managers suggests middle managers feel the least psychologically safe, compared to executives and their direct reports. youtube.com/watch?v=wSRe... #psychologicalsafety #psychosocial #interpersonalrisk
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Why Psychological Safety Fails Middle Managers
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Do self-affirmations work to overcome negative thoughts? 🧠 Or is it woo-woo nonsense to sell motivational books and crystal retreats? Surprisingly the evidence suggests they can have lasting benefits. I was pretty skeptical on this one youtube.com/watch?v=EDUv... #wellbeing #wellness #wellbeing
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The Surprising Science of Self-Talk
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New research shows AI isn’t just too agreeable, it can actually shift how we see ourselves. Sycophantic AI boosts confidence even when we’re wrong, reduces conflict‑fixing & increases dependence. 1 flattering reply was enough to change people’s judgement youtube.com/watch?v=zFYq...? #ai #chatgpt
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When AI Becomes a Yes Man
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How do your daily habits - smoking, drinking, overweight etc. - steal from your life expectancy? We explore 'Microlives' - the impact of 30 mins lost or gained to your life, and different risks. youtube.com/watch?v=jtFO... #safety #risk #health #science
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Microlives: How Your Habits Steal 30 Minutes of Life
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Do you know how many rhinos it takes to stop a tram? Or how many elephants suspended from a rope to break glass? Here are some wacky units of measurement youtube.com/watch?v=HDk9... #science #measurement
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Why Science Measures Things in Rhinos and BatMan
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Can the well-intentioned logic of reporting and learning from all near misses INCREASE risk taking decisions? Some research suggests Yes - near misses can be interpreted as signs of success, rather than cues of danger #safety #risk #nearmiss youtube.com/watch?v=RGgH...
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How Near Misses Increase Risky Decisions
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Who would you trust more for medical advice - your doctor or an #AI chatbot? Research found AI LLMs outperform doctors on a range of recall knowledge tests. Of course, this isn't the tacit application of expertise... youtube.com/watch?v=cE_8... #medicine #healthcare #safety #risk #llm
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Your Doctor vs ChatGPT - Who Wins?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Is safety certification (ISO 45001 etc) linked with better safety incident performance, or even more fatalities? Let's find out. youtube.com/watch?v=3uG7... #iso45001 #safety #risk
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Does Safety Certification Improve Safety? #iso45001
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Are fewer workplace injuries linked with more serious and fatal injuries? Here Prof Sid Dekker discusses this unexpected relationship youtube.com/watch?v=njzj... #safety #risk #sif #constructionsafety
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Prof Sid Dekker: Is there a link between less injuries and more fatalities?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Does early, pre-construction decision making improve the selection of higher-order risk controls? Yes, so it appears #safety #hierarchyofcontrol #risk #constructionsafety youtube.com/watch?v=SJ3T...
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Pre-Construction Safety: Why The Hierarchy of Control Starts Before the First Nail...
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Can you be tricked into falsely remembering a crime that you never committed? This research unpacks how easily memory can be hacked #psychology #risk #memory #bias youtube.com/watch?v=box4...
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Can You Be Gaslit Into a False Confession?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Is where you live, killing you? Turns out, the closer you live to a busy road, the worse are your health prospects for cardiovascular & respiratory disease, birth defects & more youtube.com/watch?v=wPHf... #health #disease #pollution #airpollution
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Why Your Neighborhood Might Be Making You Sick
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How can we improve big decisions in organizations, and inject hold-points for debiasing? This video frantically covers an article from Daniel Kahneman and colleagues on just this very topic. youtube.com/watch?v=dvcz... #decisionmaking #bias #judgements #danielkahneman
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How to Actually Fix Your Decision-Making Process
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Why do leaders make (sometimes) terrible decisions? One reason is because of cognitive biases. This article unpacks 12 questions to debias decisions, based on an article from Daniel Kahneman youtu.be/N_29X8G3btY #bias #psychology #management #DecisionMaking
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Why Good Leaders Make Terrible Decisions: The Science of Bias
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
What can zombie apocalypses teach us about ideal leadership? Quite a lot. This unpacks an article that uses Day of the Dead to learn about leadership under stress. youtube.com/watch?v=nn2y... #leadership #management #zombies #business #science
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Leadership in a Zombie Infested World: Strategies for Survival
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What can #Metallica teach us about innovation and organizational change? Stop trying to incentivize change via FUEL, and rather focus on removing FRICTIONS Make the desired change EASIER youtube.com/shorts/watch... #change #innovation #risk
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STOP Adding Fuel! Remove Friction for REAL Change
This episode unpacks the concept of fuel vs friction for organizational change and motivation. Fuel increases the incentives for change, like prizes, money, and other forms of motivation. In contrast...
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Is Safety Culture a Failed or Useful Concept for Organizations? This ep explores critiques, proposed links with performance, and some lingering ambiguity youtu.be/QBzOd-uejXg #safety #safetyculture #risk #healthcare
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Is Safety Culture a Failed or Useful Concept for Organizations? A Review of the Scientific Research
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Which surgery do you choose - 10% die or 90% survive? People have a preference for one over the other, despite being the same risk This ep unpacks how framing and bias affects risk perception #risk #bias #healthcare #psychology www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0l...
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Why surgeons shouldn't say '10% die'
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Does poor sleep affect strength gains? This systematic review provides insights youtube.com/watch?v=bljw... #sleep #strength #health #fitness
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Is sleep killing your strength gainz?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Are leader walkarounds an effective engagement tool or superficial peacocking to look like they care? Let's look at the science youtu.be/1rEmORCY-eE?... #leadership #management #patientsafety #healthcare
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Is Your Boss Just "Peacocking"? The Science of Leader Walkarounds
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#AI is changing the nature of work. Research from >180k GitHub users shows people shifting tasks towards their core work and away from non-core, project management activities youtube.com/watch?v=WbuC... #chatgpt #github #work #llm #artificialintelligence
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How AI is Rewriting Every Job Description
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Does using AI make us smarter, or just more confident? This study found AI improved user performance, but affected their ability to judge their own performance. Hence, they thought they were performing better than they were. #ai #chatgpt #psychology youtube.com/watch?v=MH90XHI14JE
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AI Makes you Smarter but not Wiser: How AI affects your Cognition
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Gen AI helps improve construction manager well-being and work/life balance according to this survey study safetyinsights.org/2026/03/24/g... #construction #ai #artificialintelligence #wellbeing
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Generative artificial intelligence adoption and managerial well-being in construction organizations
Can GenAI improve workplace well-being and work-life balance? Perhaps. This survey study of 261 construction industry managerial professionals in Nigeria provided insights. PS. Check out my YouTube…
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
From driving, to skydiving, to swimming and even to how many bananas you eat: what are your chances of death from everyday tasks? This unpacks micromorts - a unit of risk indicating one-in-a-million chance of death youtube.com/watch?v=TIEe... #mortality #risk #science #driving
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From Skydiving to Eating Bananas: Your Everyday Risks of Death
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sidney Dekker discusses whether 'human error' can be more of an organisational issue: how it designs and resources work, use of incentives, pressures and more. youtube.com/watch?v=1-Sr... #safety #humanfactors #ergonomics #accidents #error
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Is human error an organisational problem?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Are new parents at greater risk of fatigue-related vehicle crashes? Yes, per this data - 6x greater risk of near misses and crashes youtube.com/watch?v=eikU... #fatigue #sleep #roadsafety
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New Parents Report 6x Increase in Fatigue-Related Driving Crashes
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Did you know that there's a gender gap in the use of AI LLMs at work? Women are less likely to use AI than men, and have more concerns about its ethical use. #ai #llm #chatgpt #gender #gendergap youtube.com/watch?v=Ersh...
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The Gender Divide in AI Use at Work
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Does dirty, sexy, money buy happiness? Yes, but only up to a threshold. Instead, researchers suggest focusing on buying *experiences* rather than things youtube.com/watch?v=SnsN... #wealth #money #happiness #wellbeing #wellness
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The point where money stops making you happier
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Fallacies of zero harm, safety observation reports and safety culture. Part 2 interview with Dr Fred Sherratt youtu.be/SWgL66hj1RU #safety #zeroharm #safetyculture #construction
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Is work making you sick? This meta-analysis analysed links between psychosocial risks on health. They found job strain and more linked to cardiovascular diseases and mental ill-health youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9C... #mentalhealth #psychosocial #safety #risk #health #wellness
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Is Your Workplace Making You Sick? The Role of Psychosocial Risks
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What are your thoughts on behavioral safety/BBS - big thumbs up or visible disgust? Let's unpack the research youtu.be/14q_H7W_nG4 #bbs #behaviorbasedsafety #safety #hse #psychology
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Behavior-Based Safety (BBS): Saint or Sinner? A balanced review of the science
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Dr Drew Rae discusses why safety clutter accumulates & why it increases risk youtube.com/watch?v=g1qx... #risk #safety #safetyclutter #clutter #safety2 #healthcare #patientsafety
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Dr Drew Rae: Why Safety Clutter Accumulates & Creates Risk
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Intense social media like Tik Tok physically changes adolescent brains similar to drug addiction Also linked to anxiety, depression, eating disorders + more youtube.com/watch?v=PiG-... #tiktok #depression #anxiety #drugaddiction #eatingdisorders
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Tik Tok Addiction: Risk of Anxiety, Depression & Eating Disorders
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How did the Dreamworld Thunder rapids disaster happen? This unpacks the multiple failure pathways (mainetnance, engineering, weak auditing etc) using Ten Pathways to Failure model youtu.be/M-_BnKesBrU #accident #disaster #dreamworld #safety #hse
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Learning from Disaster: Engineering, social & management failures leading to the Dreamworld accident
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Can you catch up on your weekly lost sleep on the weekend? Some research challenges this: finding people DO NOT catch-up, with effects on metabolic dysregulation youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9C... #sleep #fatigue #drowsiness #metabolichealth #diabetes
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Don't Rely on the Weekend: Why Sleep Catch-Up Won't Stop Metabolic Disease
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Dr Fred Sherratt interview pt1 Global expert on construction safety, talking about blame ideology, accountability & constructing causes #blame #accountability #constructionsafety #hse #zeroharm www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2cK...
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Dr Fred Sherratt interview pt1: blame ideology, accountability, constructing causes
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Prof Sidney Dekker on why we should move from Just Culture to Restorative Culture to reduce blame and rebuild trust and empathy youtube.com/watch?v=YmNQ... #trust #blame #justculture #restorativeculture #restorativejustice #healthcare #safety2
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The Power of Restorative Culture: Shifting from Blame to Trust
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Do your accident investigations suck? If so, join me for a free webinar racing through a safety science 101 crash course on common pitfalls and better methods luma.com/p8z4avyr #safety #ohs #safetyscience #accident #investigation #healthcare #crash #incident #hse #safety2
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How Can My Investigations Suck Less? Safety Science 101 · Luma
Have you ever asked yourself, 'Why do our investigations suck?'. If so, this is the webinar for you. With a frantic, caffeine-fuelled pace, I'm racing through…
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Can our safety KPIs suck less? Let's explore indicators focused on unpacking the effectiveness of our risk control systems youtu.be/bHwRE5bBwm4 #kpi #safety #indicator #accident #ohs
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Better indicators for your risk control system
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Is sitting all day putting you into the grave? If so, how much physical activity can offset the higher risk of early death? It turns out - it doesn't take a lot of movement youtube.com/watch?v=OiZc... #health #fitness #exercise #lifestyle
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The minimum exercise that saves your life from sitting
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Part 2 interview with Dr Drew Rae, discussing decision-making, effective safety indicators, what to remove from investigations, false assurance of safety approaches, procedural alchemy, safety evidence and more. youtu.be/TFmbWDu5IEU #safety #safety2 #safetyscience #risk
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Dr Drew Rae interview pt 2: decision-making, effective safety indicators & investigations
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Prof Sidney Dekker's view on the role of #BBS in modern organisational safety approaches. PS. Make sure to Subscribe. I have one of, if not the biggest, names in BBS and safety culture coming up soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyeY... #behavioralsafety #humanfactors #safety #bbs
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Should behavioral safety have a place in modern organizations?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How risky is your shift work schedule - are you more likely to be injured during night shifts, or what about the fourth shift compared to the first? youtube.com/watch?v=s7jYIZgg868 #fatigue #sleep #safety #ohs #accident #tired
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Is fatigue and shift work injuring you?
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Is your organization holding onto 'dead' ideas of leaders? Like, leaders as saviours or holding special skills that mere mortals don't. If so, this might be a sign of zombie leadership. #leadership #business #science #psychology #organizationaleffectiveness youtu.be/8gD7WpbCb_M
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Zombie leadership: old ideas that refuse to die
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Boomerasking: when you ask somebody a question only to answer it yourself. And people find it deceiving youtu.be/GQNXPbcst6U #psychology #teamwork #business
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Boomerasking: Why Asking Questions Can Backfire
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Interview with Assoc Prof Drew Rae, talking New View evidence, safety clutter, risk assessments, Take 5 rituals + more youtu.be/UTrFeJBXHa0 #newview #safety2 #safety #risk #safetyclutter
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Dr Drew Rae interview pt 1: New View evidence, safety clutter, Take 5 rituals + more
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Safety Insights @safetyinsights.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Sidney Dekker on whether the drift into failure is inevitable or manageable without benefit of hindsight youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ze... #safety #disaster #drift #safety2 #patientsafety
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Dekker: Is the safety 'drift into failure' inevitable?
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