Just Culture

Dekker, S. (2007). Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability. Ashgate Publishing.

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Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2007

Link

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Cited from

communication_media_studies, organizational_management

Cited by

9 citations across 9 artifacts.

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Primes

• Procedure-Work Mismatch
  • That reframe, central to Just Culture and to Safety-II, redirects attention from the operator's compliance to the relationship between the prescribed and enacted layers, which is where the recoverable cause usually lives.

    This sourceArgues post-incident analysis should ask whether the procedure was followable rather than whether the operator deviated.

• Rashomon Effect
  • The historiographical discipline of preserving multiple accounts reappears as structured after-action review in military, aviation, and incident-response contexts, underwriting the difference between blame-finding and learning-oriented review.

    This sourceArgues that learning-oriented incident review must preserve and account for the divergent vantage-bound accounts of those involved rather than collapse them into a single blame narrative.

Domain-specific

• Self-Serving Bias
  • Standard mitigations exploit the asymmetry's dependence on self-involvement: anonymous post-mortems, observer-triangulated review, blameless retrospective procedures that explicitly suspend valenced attribution, and 360-degree feedback that separates self-assessment from observer assessment all partially correct the distortion by removing the conditions that trigger it

Mechanisms

• Blameless Postmortem
  • The underlying principle is a just culture: a stance that distinguishes honest error from reckless conduct and refuses to punish the former, precisely so the former will be reported.

    This sourceDefines just culture as distinguishing honest mistakes from reckless conduct so ordinary error can be reported without punitive treatment.

• Case Conference
  • Guarding against this is the point of a just culture — the safety-science principle that separates honest error and system-induced failure (to be learned from) from recklessness (to be sanctioned)

    This sourceFrames just culture as protecting honest mistakes while balancing learning with accountability and safeguarding incident reporting.

• Incident and Adverse-Event Reporting
  • Reports are non-punitive by design; a filer who self-reports an honest error gains limited immunity, which is what keeps the channel full instead of empty.

    This sourcePresents a just culture as a reporting environment that avoids reflexive punishment for honest error so that safety information continues to surface.

• Individual / Team / Organization Level Selection
  • A just-culture stance — asking what about the work design made the error likely, not only who made it — is the discipline this method operationalizes at the level-selection step.

    This sourceFrames just culture through a systems view that treats human error as a symptom and examines work design, procedures, goal conflicts, and production pressure rather than only blaming the individual.

• Near-Miss Notice Review
  • A just culture, which separates honest error from recklessness so that reporting a lucky catch is safe, is the discipline that keeps the data flowing.

    This sourcePresents just culture as distinguishing acceptable error from reckless conduct so people can report mistakes and near misses without suppressing the safety information needed for learning.

• No-Fault Learning Review
  • The guarding discipline comes from just culture,

    This sourceBalances protection and learning for honest mistakes with continued accountability for culpable conduct.

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• https://obnb.uk/p14200105-just-culture-balancing-safety-and-accountability ×2
• https://books.google.ca/books/about/Just_Culture.html?id=ZA0uXmtR96MC ×1
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• https://books.google.com/books/about/Just_Culture.html?id=uoslAQAAMAAJ ×1
• https://search.worldcat.org/title/Just-culture-balancing-safety-and-accountability/oclc/77716725 ×1

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