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Safety literature focuses on straightforward ways to build highly reliable systems involving humans. That applies to almost everyone on HN. What's funny is tha
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
Safety literature focuses on straightforward ways to build highly reliable systems involving humans. That applies to almost everyone on HN.
What's funny is that the suggestions are usually pretty "common sense". You already know most of the information in Sidney Dekker's books and the NASA guidelines. They're essentially the same principles we all like to see in code.
Things like: Consider the human factors. Make doing the right thing easy. Make wrong things obvious. Trust, but verify. Keep the signal to noise ratio high in communication. Etc.
- terribleperson 2y agoOne big lesson, I think (at least as flying does safety), is that even if the ideas are common sense, you have to take the common sense and turn it into rules and processes, and make sure people stick to those. And if it's a role where time matters, you have to drill those so people stick to them when seconds count.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoThere's a lot of value in the books. Applying "common sense" consistently and intentionally is extremely difficult. It's not a deep magic entirely divorced from the practices we already know and agree with, but rather the organizational equivalent of going to the gym.