Guides, method notes and research-informed articles on system safety, human factors and socio-technical risk.
These resources bring together practical explanations, method comparisons and research based on my work across healthcare, aviation, rail and emerging AI-enabled systems.
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A plain-language guide to why safety depends on the way people, technology, tasks, organisations and regulation work together.
Socio-technical systems, system interactions, human factors, risk assessment
Read resourceA practical guide to choosing between three systems-based approaches by starting with the safety question, not the method.
STPA, FRAM, CAST, hazard analysis, event analysis
Read resourceA research-informed guide to using risk matrices as a practical conversation tool without letting the grid do the thinking.
Risk matrices, risk scoring, prioritisation, uncertainty
Read resourceA practical guide to Safety-I, Safety-II and one systems-theoretic use of Safety-III: learning from harm, learning from everyday work and designing systems to control unacceptable losses.
Safety-I, Safety-II, Safety-III, learning, resilience
Read resourceA careful guide to where large language models may support safety assessment, and why expert judgement, evidence and traceability still matter.
LLMs, AI, STPA, FRAM, expert review, traceability
Read resourceA human-centred guide to the difference between how work is expected, prescribed, described and actually carried out in practice.
Human factors, WAI, WAD, everyday work, FRAM
Read resourceA practical guide to the Risk Assessment Framework developed to support clearer, more systematic and more useful risk assessment in hospitals.
Risk Assessment Framework, healthcare, identify, analyse, evaluate, manage
Read resourceA practical guide to looking beyond “human error” by examining how people, tasks, tools, environments, organisations and system interactions shape safety.
Human factors, accident analysis, human error, HFACS, system safety, investigation methods
Read resourceA practical guide to why the search for “the root cause” can narrow learning, using Air Canada Flight 759 as a systems-safety example.
5 Whys, root cause analysis, incident investigation, systems thinking, Air Canada 759, CAST, FRAM
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These resources turn research, teaching material and applied system safety experience into accessible explanatory notes. They draw on my publications, doctoral work, selected academic literature and practical examples, but they are written as web resources rather than journal articles.
Based on published papers, doctoral research, selected academic references, teaching material and applied system safety examples.
Written to support understanding and reflection, not to provide universal prescriptions or replace professional judgement.
Each article lists related publications and selected references for further reading. Some drafting and editing may be supported by AI tools, but the content is reviewed and checked before publication.
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