'They Lost Situation Awareness'

'They Lost Situation Awareness'

Published on: 22/04/2025

When an adverse event occurs, we often hear the cause described as a 'loss of situation awareness.' This phrase by itself fails to yield the actual contributory factors that led to the event, limiting our ability to learn from the incident.

You're biased, I'm biased, We are all biased!

You're biased, I'm biased, We are all biased!

Published on: 22/01/2025

A look at the three main cognitive biases that limit our learning; hindsight, severity, outcome and confirmation bias.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

Published on: 13/12/2023

Would you do the same thing again?

Would you do the same thing again?

Published on: 27/05/2023

After the event is easy to identify the critical factors that contributed to the incident/accident. However, if nothing goes wrong, would you spot those critical factors?

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