What the Analysis of World War II Bombers Teaches Us About Learning From Accidents
Ian Pemberton
Managing Director at Human Focus ? Chartered Ergonomist ? Author of "Achieving Health & Safety Training Success" ? Globally Trusted Authority on Workplace Safety Training and Behavior Change
There’s a great story about Abraham Wald, a genius mathematician.?During world war II, he was approached by the United States Air Force (USAF) with the thorny problem of how they could reduce the number of of bombers that were being lost to enemy fighter planes.
What he came up with was a remarkable, counter-intuitive analysis, that completely changed how the USAF were thinking about the problem.
There’s a really important lesson here for how we learn from accidents and near misses in modern workplaces. Take a look at the video below and I will tell you more about Abraham Wald, and how he reframed the problem to get a much better solution.
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