Complex Systems and Safety (EEAST General Broadcast with Steven Shorrock)

Summary

It's important to think about how we are safe on the front line, doing the work day in and day out. How do our policies, 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.

In this podcast, from the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) General Broadcast, Steven talks about how policies can interfere with each other, how hierarchy impacts performance and reflects on incidents.