Risk assessment
Capturing error traps and the gap between planned and real work.
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How Learning from Normal Work Improves Risk Assessment: The Evidence and the Method
Risk assessment captures hazards but often misses the conditions that turn those hazards into incidents. Learning from Normal Work closes this gap by adding…
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The Hidden Cost of Invisible Risk: What a Signed-Off Assessment Never Tells the Board
Workers miss over 55% of hazards in their workspace, even on routine tasks (Albert et al., 2017). Hazard spotting is “the weakest link in…
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Risk Is Owned Upstream: Why Planners and Engineers Shape Safety More Than the Front Line
Forty-two percent of construction deaths link to design choices made before anyone lifts a tool (Behm, 2005). That figure comes from 224 fatality cases…
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The Energy-Source Method: How to Find 30% More Hazards in the Same Task
Ask workers “what could go wrong?” and they spot roughly half the hazards in their work area (Albert et al., 2017). The bottleneck is…
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How to Find Error Traps With a Walk-Through Talk-Through
At a European manufacturing site, eight behavioral observation cards for a metal profiling line produced zero improvement suggestions. A single Walk-Through Talk-Through lasting 25…
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What Creates Risk in the Workplace? It Goes Far Beyond Unsafe Behavior
At a building site in North America, workers signed Job Safety Analyses every day without reading them. “We do the same job every day.…
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Whose Risk Perception Counts? Why Frontline Workers See Risk Differently
A warehouse worker in Latin America told me he shared a single safety harness with his crew. Fitting it to each person’s size took…
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Work as Done vs Work as Imagined: Understanding the Gap That Causes Accidents
Learning from Normal Work treats this gap between belief and reality as the primary source of unmanaged risk. Understanding it is the first step…
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Energy-Based Safety: What It Does Well and the Two Gaps It Cannot Close
Energy-based safety helps crews spot the physical forces that can cause harm at a task: gravity, pressure, heat, motion, chemical, and electrical energy. It…
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