Learning lessons in the #commercialdiving sector... not easy given the commercial protectionism that happens. This morning, I had a commercial diving friend contact me and say that they'd heard of a burning incident that knocked someone out in a similar way to his incident which he recounted in this session at the #humanfactors in #diving conference in 2021.
https://lnkd.in/ek3XJUY9
The need to share stories is something I talked about at the Bergen Commercial Diving Conference in November last year and also at the Canadian Underwater Conference and Exhibition in March this year. It is also core to my MSc research available here (Storytelling to learn: what happens underwater, stays underwater - https://lnkd.in/ea45b2Cr)
The PDF of the deck for Bergen is available here: https://lnkd.in/einem9TV
We can't make all the mistakes ourselves, so we aren't going to learn that way. We easily dismiss others' stories if there isn't the context because that is the way we are wired. It takes a paradigm shift to move away from an event and the particulars and look at the context and conditions (which are likely to be similar). To explore the context means that organisations have to be open, and this is an issue when lawyers and (often) HR get involved.
Having delivered a full day 'Just Culture' workshop last year, I can say that there are false preconceptions about what a Just Culture is, and it isn't what most companies think it is. Fundamentally, algorithms are about protecting an organisation, not about facilitating learning. And you can't proceduralise a culture (dust the policy off), but you can weaponise such a process, and that induces fear, and that seriously limits learning. If organisations genuinely want to learn, they have to move the conversations from 'have to say this' (absolute minimum) to 'want to say this' (lots of context, adaptations, and workarounds).
I will see about getting the CUCE 2024 presentation put onto YouTube as I believe in sharing my presentations where possible. The presentation doesn't benefit me, it is there for others to reflect on, and hopefully learn.
As an outsider, I can highlight gaps, but I can't close them. I can give people tools, but there needs to be leadership that is willing to go out there and find the truth, and that is not easy.
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