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Podcast with Sidney Dekker

This is a really interesting podcast interview with Sidney Dekker, who's one of the most important thinkers in safety.

This is a really interesting podcast interview with Sidney Dekker, who's one of the most important thinkers in safety. The Jay Allen Show on Safety [link to https://pod.co/the-jay-allen-show-on-safety-fm-2/sidney-dekker no longer works] . (Fast forward through the first 3 minutes, the content is quite interesting.)

Particularly interesting is his discussion of some 'best practices' which come out of a poorly supported chain of work by an insurance analyst. "It turns out, the deeper you dig, he made it up. There's literally no basis for the triangle."