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Overview

Sidney Dekker is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of health professions, particularly focusing on occupational health and safety research. Their academic work spans several interconnected domains such as risk and safety analysis, human-automation interaction and safety, workplace violence and bullying, supply chain resilience and risk management, safety warnings and signage, and quality and safety in healthcare.

The following list outlines the main topics of Sidney Dekker's research:

  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Risk and Safety Analysis
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Safety Warnings and Signage
  • Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Their work appears consistently in various publication venues, emphasizing their contributions to safety and healthcare fields. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Safety Science
  • Safety
  • Journal of Hospital Administration
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Healthcare

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Sidney Dekker showcases the range and focus of their research:

  • "How deregulation can become overregulation: An empirical study into the growth of internal bureaucracy when governments take a step back," 2020, Safety Science
  • "Managing accidents using retributive justice mechanisms: When the just culture policy gets done to you," 2020, Safety Science
  • "Safety after neoliberalism," 2020, Safety Science
  • "Restorative just culture significantly improves stakeholder inclusion, second victim experiences and quality of recommendations in incident responses," 2022, Journal of Hospital Administration
  • "Audit masquerade: How audits provide comfort rather than treatment for serious safety problems," 2023, Safety Science

Sidney Dekker's scholarly collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Andrew Rae
  • Leonie Boskeljon-Horst
  • David D. Woods
  • Ben Hutchinson
  • Michael TOOMA

Their contributions to book literature include a publication through Productivity Press eBooks:

  • Restorative Just Culture in Practice, 2022

In addition to their primary role in health professions, Sidney Dekker's work engages with several subfields including radiological and ultrasound technology, statistics, probability and uncertainty, social psychology, strategy and management, and sociology and political science. This range reflects a multidisciplinary approach addressing complex safety and organizational issues.

Best Publications

  • The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

    Sidney Dekker

  • Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

    Sidney Dekker

  • Behind Human Error

    David D. Woods;Sidney Dekker;Richard Cook;Leila Johannesen

  • The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

    Sidney Dekker

  • The complexity of failure: Implications of complexity theory for safety investigations

    Sidney W. A. Dekker;Paul Cilliers;Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr

  • MABA-MABA or Abracadabra? Progress on Human–Automation Co-ordination

    Sidney W. A. Dekker;David D. Woods

  • Reconstructing human contributions to accidents: the new view on error and performance.

    Sidney W.A. Dekker

  • Ten questions about human error

    Sidney W.A. Dekker

  • Failure to adapt or adaptations that fail: contrasting models on procedures and safety

    Sidney W. A. Dekker

  • Anticipating the effects of technological change: a new era of dynamics for human factors

    David D. Woods;Sidney Dekker

  • The need for a systems theory approach to road safety

    Peter Larsson;Sidney W.A. Dekker;Claes Tingvall

  • Resilience Engineering: Chronicling the Emergence of Confused Consensus

    Sidney Dekker

  • ‘Just culture:’ Improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice

    Sidney W.A. Dekker;Hugh Breakey

  • Safety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice

    David J. Provan;David D. Woods;Sidney W.A. Dekker;Andrew J. Rae

  • ON YOUR WATCH: AUTOMATION ON THE BRIDGE.

    Margareta H. Lützhöft;Sidney W. A. Dekker

  • Resilience Engineering Perspectives: Preparation and Restoration

    Christopher P. Nemeth;Erik Hollnagel;Sidney Dekker

  • Just culture: who gets to draw the line?

    Sidney W. A. Dekker

  • Predicting pilot error: Testing a new methodology and a multi-methods and analysts approach

    Neville Anthony Stanton;Paul Matthew Salmon;Don Harris;Andrew Marshall

  • Drifting into failure: theorising the dynamics of disaster incubation

    Sidney Dekker;Shawn Pruchnicki

  • Ergonomics and sustainability: towards an embrace of complexity and emergence

    Sidney W A Dekker;Peter A Hancock;Peter Wilkin

  • Remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure

    Erik Hollnagel;Christopher P. Nemeth;Sidney Dekker

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Hollnagel
Erik Hollnagel Jönköping University
David Woods
David Woods The Ohio State University
Paul M. Salmon
Paul M. Salmon University of the Sunshine Coast
Neville A. Stanton
Neville A. Stanton University of Southampton
Mark S. Young
Mark S. Young University of Southampton
Wolff-Michael Roth
Wolff-Michael Roth University of Victoria
Nadine Sarter
Nadine Sarter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter A. Hancock
Peter A. Hancock University of Central Florida

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