Just Culture¶
Dekker, S. (2012). Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability.
Cited by¶
6 citations across 6 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Cross-Tier Learning Review
- Treating error as a signal about the system rather than the person — a just-culture stance — is what makes candor and learning possible.
This sourceFrames a just culture as learning from adverse events by examining the system surrounding human actions while retaining a principled account of accountability.
- Treating error as a signal about the system rather than the person — a just-culture stance — is what makes candor and learning possible.
- Expectation-Violation Review
- Held well, it embodies a just culture, which treats a violation as data about the system rather than an occasion to punish an individual, and so keeps future accounts truthful.
This sourceDocuments treats a violation as data about the system; rather than an occasion to punish an individual; keeps future accounts truthful.
- Held well, it embodies a just culture, which treats a violation as data about the system rather than an occasion to punish an individual, and so keeps future accounts truthful.
- Just Culture Postmortem
- It is the operational embodiment of just culture,
This sourcePresents just culture as a fair balance of learning and accountability that enables safety reporting and honest disclosure.
- It is the operational embodiment of just culture,
- Learning-from-Error Postmortem
- Its strength is that it turns a painful event into a permanent asset and, done blamelessly, surfaces the true causes that a blame culture drives underground.
This sourceArgues that a just-culture response to failure encourages disclosure and learning about systemic causes that blame-oriented responses suppress.
- Its strength is that it turns a painful event into a permanent asset and, done blamelessly, surfaces the true causes that a blame culture drives underground.
- Near-Miss Sentinel Dashboard
- A green board then breeds the very complacency it should puncture, and the classic misuse is to run it as a compliance scoreboard ("look how few near-misses we have"), which quietly punishes reporting and starves the channel.
This sourceExplains that punitive treatment of near-miss reporting suppresses reports and starves the organization of safety information.
- A green board then breeds the very complacency it should puncture, and the classic misuse is to run it as a compliance scoreboard ("look how few near-misses we have"), which quietly punishes reporting and starves the channel.
- Safety Reinforcement Protocol
- It operationalizes just culture, the safety principle that distinguishes honest error and reportable risk (to be met with learning, not punishment) from genuine recklessness (which remains accountable).
This sourceFrames just culture as protecting honest mistakes while supporting reporting, learning, and balanced accountability.
- It operationalizes just culture, the safety principle that distinguishes honest error and reportable risk (to be met with learning, not punishment) from genuine recklessness (which remains accountable).
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- https://obnb.uk/p16026679-just-culture-balancing-safety-and-accountability ×1
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