Complex Systems and Safety

EEAST General Broadcast - A podcast by East of England Ambulance Service

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It's important to think about how we are safe on the front line, doing the work day in and day out, but how do our polices, processes and practices across an entire organisation impact the safety of our work?Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives. He currently specialises as a human factors and safety specialist in air traffic control in Europe, but has worked across most safety critical sectors.We talk about how policies can interfere with each other, how hierarchy impacts performance and reflecting on incidents in this fascinating chat.Steven's blog can be found here Humanistic Systems and he's also on Twitter @StevenShorrock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.