Interactions
How people, technologies, tasks and organisational conditions influence one another.
The Socio-Technical Safety Studio
Understanding and improving safety in complex systems.
System safety, human factors and socio-technical analysis.
The Studio brings together research-informed resources, method notes and selected services on risk, accident analysis and safety in systems where people, technology and organisations work together.
Start where you are
Choose a useful starting point.
The site is organised for readers who want an introduction, a research resource or a focused conversation.
Research at a glance
Four recurring aspects of socio-technical safety.
The Studio's resources return to four related aspects of safety: system interactions, control and feedback, performance variability, and learning from events and everyday work.
Controls
How decisions, constraints, feedback and oversight shape what the system allows, prevents or detects.
Variability
How everyday work changes with context, demand, uncertainty and operational pressure.
Learning
How organisations learn from incidents, near misses, adaptations and everyday performance.
Topics in the Studio
Five connected areas of work.
These areas organise the resources and services on this site. Each addresses a distinct part of system safety, while recognising that the methods and questions often overlap.
System safety
How hazards, controls, constraints and interactions are examined across the wider system.
Human factors
How people shape and are shaped by tools, tasks, procedures, teams and operational environments.
Risk assessment
How risks are identified, analysed, prioritised and discussed in practice.
Safety thinking
How different safety perspectives, including Safety-I, Safety-II and systems thinking, support learning, reflection and improvement.
AI and emerging systems
How safety assessment changes when AI, automation, LLMs and new operational concepts are introduced.
Resources
Featured resources
The library contains accessible guides and method notes, each linked to related publications and selected references.
System safety
Guide
What is socio-technical safety?
A plain-language guide to why safety depends on the way people, technology, tasks, organisations and regulation work together.
AI and emerging systems
Guide
Can LLMs support safety assessment?
A careful guide to where large language models may help, and why expert judgement, evidence and traceability still matter.
Safety thinking
Guide
Safety-I, Safety-II and Safety-III: a practical comparison
A practical comparison of learning from harm, learning from everyday work and using systems theory to control unacceptable losses.
Services
Ways to work with Dr Kaya
Selected talks, workshops, review input, research collaboration and applied support are available where the question fits Dr Kaya's expertise.