Dominic Furniss

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Quite possibly the most disrespectful post in a sea of disrespect. I’m not Catholic amd I’m sickened..

The 7 Deadly Sins of SCTA Implementation #humanfactors humanreliability.com/2025/04/the-7-…

FREE 30min Mini-course on Human Factors Safety Critical Task Review (HFCTR)… a great short introduction to Human Factors risk management. buff.ly/s4A0DzK #humanfactors #SCTA #HOP #qualityimprovement

Flagship course on Human Factors Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA). Sign up today! buff.ly/bEv6DF4 #COMAH #MHI #Processsafety #humanfactors #riskmanagement #hse #SCTA

How to take PIF analysis to the next level! We often rely on standard HSE checklists for identifying Performance Influencing Factors, but there's so much more to consider... buff.ly/4hBY1x3 #HSE #HumanFactors #Safety #OperationalExcellence #RiskManagement #SystemSafety

We explore how #storytelling enhances the #SCTA process! While it might seem controversial to bring narrative approaches into the technical world of process safety, stories are actually essential! buff.ly/43fXKfs #HumanFactors #ProcessSafety #RiskManagement

In such accidents, the operator’s role was “to add the final garnish to a lethal stew whose ingredients have already been long in the cooking”, he explained

Professor James Reason obituary: expert on human error - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/A1tCunEcCTOqCB…

"Context shapes behaviour" - This fundamental principle in human performance is brilliantly illustrated through the Parable of the Ant. buff.ly/b0APILS #ContextShapesBehaviour #HumanFactors #SystemsThinking #Safety #OrganizationalPerformance #OrganisationalPerformance

Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth: December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia. February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness. July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden. February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically. U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war. ~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff. The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP. America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates. Slava Ukraina.

The #HSE released a new Human Factors Delivery Guide for COMAH sites in December 2023. Want to know what's changed? I've written a detailed comparison with the 2016 version. buff.ly/49JzljA #HumanFactors #ProcessSafety #COMAH #Safety #RiskManagement #IndustryGuidance

📢 New blog alert: Checking, checks, second checks, double checks & independent checks. We explore the critical role of checking in detecting & correcting errors, especially in #SafetyCriticalIndustries. #HumanFactors #ErrorPrevention #ProcessSafety buff.ly/3OvSHPb

Lydea’s blog explores how Swimlane could be applied in the #healthcare industry. By mapping out the sequence of events, the tool helped uncover opportunities to improve processes and enhance safety. buff.ly/49KGz71 #humanfactors #incidentinvestigation #patientsafety

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I would add this lesson as well. Realize that one day, something is going to make your own product obsolete and it's better to do that yourself than wait around for somebody else to do it. Kodak could have been years ahead of their competition, Xerox did it too, RedBox did it to BlockBuster and even tried to basically give it away to them and they laughed & rejected it. The lesson is, work as hard as possible to replace your own products with the future, or else.

Once I did a case study on Kodak case, I can throw some more light. Kodak actually did some more. They gave these early versions of digital cameras to their professional Photographers n Photo studios to try n provide them feedback. Their “star” customers returned with an absolute no-no to the new tech as the output compared to the SLR cameras was not even 10% of that of SLRs. Those were days when memory was very expensive n first digital cameras took pictures of 100s kbs per image vs 3-5 MBs today. And taking printouts was the norm. Nobody had digital screen in those days. Photo studios often printed large pictures n the output of the digital cameras was very grainy. Professional photographers laughed at the tech. Kodak Execs used this feedback in making the case to discard this technology. Around the same time Minolta came with its own version of Digital cameras. Rest as they is history. Lesson is never give your latest cars to horse-wagon drivers. They are not the target customers during the innovation stage.

In 1975, Kodak was the world's most powerful photo company, worth $31 Billion. By 2012, they were completely bankrupt... Not because of competition or technology - but because of ONE fatal decision… Here's the biggest business mistake in history (and how to avoid it): 🧵

SOPs are essential, but why do operators deviate from them? We explore how non-compliance may not always be about negligence, but rather systemic challenges & opportunities for process improvement. buff.ly/3ATu8c1 #SafetyCriticalTaskAnalysis #humanfactors #procedures