November 25, 20170Comments

Key Points to Consider for Strategic Level Risk Assessments

This post gives an overview of a presentation given by our Dr Peter Standish to over 300 Electrical Engineers at the November 2017 Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar. ...

September 29, 20151Comments

3 Techniques to Improve Decisions when Looking at Your Incident Data

This post extends the discussion on Incident Data you can find here – and gives three techniques you can use to analyse your data to produce more helpful information....

by Peter Standish

FIRST - Background

IncidentAnalysis

OperationalRisk-Understanding

May 10, 20153Comments

Decision Making in Difficult Times

The Snapshot This post covers a reflection on major losses that have occurred – sometime (often many years) after decisions were made “in extremis” (under...

by Peter Standish

FIRST - Background

IncidentAnalysis

OperationalRisk-Understanding

April 16, 20150Comments

The Sleeper Within – Part 3

In this post a few ideas for Other Steps you can take to improve what you learn from incidents are discussed. In brief: How to scope up a project to confirm that you are...

by Peter Standish

FIRST - Background

IncidentAnalysis

OperationalRisk-Understanding

April 9, 20150Comments

The Sleeper Within – Part 2

In this post you’ll find a discussion on approaches to analyzing your incident data. These approaches work – and I would suggest give you a much better...

by Peter Standish

FIRST - Background

IncidentAnalysis

April 2, 20150Comments

The Sleeper Within – Part 1

What Your Incident Data Probably Isn’t Telling You This post is a reflection on my recent study of incident databases from a number of large organizations. A key...

by Peter Standish

FIRST - Background

IncidentAnalysis

March 19, 20150Comments

An Insidious Problem – Part 3

We’ve seen that natural human traits to avoid blame and organization responses that suppress reporting can impact on how useful our incident data set is. There is...

March 12, 20150Comments

An Insidious Problem – Part 2

There is another dimension to our lack of reporting – that revolves around how your organization responds to problems. The Pineapple Problem Many organizations tend to...

by Peter Standish

FIRST - Background

IncidentAnalysis

March 5, 20150Comments

An Insidious Problem – Part 1

Over the last few months I’ve had an opportunity to reflect on Operational Risk outcomes in the companies that I’ve worked for and consulted to over the years....

by Peter Standish