[0] https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
I'm not sure if it helps but maybe check out The Checklist Manifesto (https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...)
https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right-...
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
One effort to avoid this kind of problem is to use check lists. Book about that was published in 2009. (The Checklist Manifesto) https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
not just pilots ... doctors, nurses, etc.
I personally don't think an 8-page checklist (6 pages for normals) to fly a Piper Cherokee or Cessna 172 is the safest approach or most sensible operational tool. Many pilots seem to agree and make up their own checklists that they actually use with only the "killer items" and I think that probably increases safety; certainly it increases safety over the 8 page checklist that stays in the map pocket for the whole flight. Why doesn't the factory do that? Well, if they remove something from a checklist and a pilot comes to grief, they're thinking of how it will look in a courtroom. "No charge to add something to the list..."
You'd probably enjoy reading Checklist Manifesto by Dr Atul Gawande: http://amzn.to/1ZlTjoJ I read it years ago, but I seem to recall he did cover some of the processes and social aspects of checklist usage.
Harvard surgeon Atul Gawande wrote a book on it:
http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
For example, a good portion of doctors absolutely hated using checklists. Yet, when pressed, readily admitted that it prevents simple mistakes and that they would prefer to have them rather than not to. Another is that entries that address more human concerns, e.g. "Have everyone introduce themselves", have a place on good checklists.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
Some good reading here. Look motivating enough to jumpstart the process of getting out of the garage/hackspace, and into a growing company
I think the author has actually made a very sound point, statistically speaking, that often incremental improvements in dealing with the little things has as much impact on health outcomes as heroic measures to deal with the big risks to health. All around the developed world, mortality from all causes is steadily declining at all ages,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...
and most of that decline in mortality (and consequent increase in life expectancy) has come about from incremental reductions in risk. Changing engineering standards for highway construction reduces risk of injury and of death from car crashes. Simple checklists can reduce the risk of surgical complications.
http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en/
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
A girl with my daughter's birth year in the United States has a better than even chance to live to be 100 years old,
http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000128.full
just from an accumulation of incremental improvements in health in the developed countries. The little things matter. We don't have to worry about the little things. Indeed, we can celebrate that so many little things are taken care of for us by societal changes.
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
which was mentioned favorably in several HN threads this year. (Thanks to the recommenders here who reminded me to read this book.) The Checklist Manifesto is practical, exciting, and thought-provoking in balance, and it will help you do your work better, whatever you do, and enjoy your family life better, whoever is in your family. It's a great read; don't miss it.
The Checklist Manifesto http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d...
Better http://www.amazon.com/Better-Surgeons-Performance-Atul-Gawan...
He's a New Yorker writer and practicing surgeon. His books contain lots of insight about ways that medicine could be vastly improved by innovation. Unfortunately, few techies are doctors.
This is a book on the topic you brought up. Doctor's have too much ego to follow a checklist. It doesn't make sense however since extremely smart people in the military and nasa follow checklists all the time.
This is something we're trying to apply to our operations. Definitely not an easy task to convince everyone to use them and like the article says, many people think checklists are beneath them so it's helpful when I can point to data in medicine or now like the article, venture capital.
A doctor named Atul Gawande wrote a book named The Checklist Manifesto https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
Early in his career he did some research that showed that a simple pre-surgery checklist could reduce serious complications by more than a third. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dr-atul-gawande-surgical...