This theme includes discussion around how professionals make decisions; the advantages and hazards of experience, preventing, mitigating and recovering from incidents; situation awareness and why is it so important; communication techniques; non-technical skills and briefing, debriefing and the role of checklists.
Scroll down to see all videos in this themeSteve Kreiser, former F18 pilot, talks about safety culture & situational awareness on an aircraft carrier and how this can be translated into healthcare.
Watch this talkDr Larry Roy, Anaesthetist from Sick Kids Toronto talks on Saturday night is only good for fighting and how patient outcomes are affected at weekends.
Watch this talkDr Judith Orasanu, NASA Human Factors Expert: talks about what we say we will do in certain situations and then what we actually do when in those scenarios.
Watch this talkProfessor Rhona Flin, Human Factors Expert at Aberdeen University talks about the negative effect of poor behaviour on congnition and safety.
Watch this talkProfessor Bren Neale, Professor of Sociology talks about the tragic and avoidable death of her fiancé Dr John Hubley during a routine operation.
Watch this talkShawn Pruchnicki, Formerly Director of Human Factors at ALPA, pilot and air accident investigator, talks about how he went about investigating the The Lexington air disaster.
Watch this talkDean Richards, England/Lions Rugby Union player and Director of Rugby Leicester and Harlequins talks about lessons from the “Bloodgate” incident.
Watch this talkProfessor Gerald Hickson, Director, Centre for Patient and Professional Advocacy, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, talks about their novel approach to avoiding litigation.
Watch this talkPat Croskerry, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Psychology, talks about clinical decision making and diagnostic error.
Watch this talkRobert Calvert, Former Head of Training Standards at the CAA: talks about decision making to fly aircrafts during volcanic ash clouds.
Watch this talkDuncan Murrell, The Whaleman – Wildlife Photographer, talks about the risks of photographing humpback whales on a kayak during a feeding frenzy.
Watch this talkProfessor Sid Watkins, Neurosurgeon and former chief medical officer for F1 and FIA, explains the systematic changes he has introduced which has dramatically reduced F1 driver mortality over the past 30 years.
Watch this talkDr Brendan Venter, Director of Rugby at Saracens, World rugby cup winner & GP, talks about leadership in rugby, and briefing in the locker-room before the big game.
Watch this talkTom Henricks, former NASA Astronaut, highlights how briefings should be seen as an essential component of the overall safety culture.
Watch this talkProfessor James Reason talks about humans as both hazards and heroes and describes the ingredients for heroic recovery including: training and discipline; sheer unadulterated professionalism; skill and luck and inspired improvisations.
Watch this talkMike Golding, an international yachtsman, and three times World Champion, describes his decision making process and personal sacrifice during the extremely challenging rescue of his arch rival, Alex Thomson, during the Velux 5 Oceans Race 2006/7.
Watch this talkJulie Thao, former nurse, tells her story of how, after an intense double shift with minimal sleep, she inadvertedly mixed up two infusions which tragically led to the death or her patient.
Watch this talkProfessor Sidney Dekker, who is The Professor of Human factors and System Safety at Lund University, Sweden, discusses what constitutes a just culture in dealing with major incidents.
Watch this talkProfessor Gerald Hickson, The Director of The Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy, describes the disruptive influence of 'special colleagues' on their team and his approach into providing insight and self correction.
Watch this talkProfessor Peter Laussen, who is a Harvard Anaesthesia Professor, andChief of The Cardiovascular Intensive Care at The Children’s Hospital of Boston stresses the importance of standardized training in communication techniques to improve patient safety.
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