Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning Paperback – Illustrated, 27 May 2016

A lot of words to describe little new information, difficult to distill the point the author is trying to make. Also little focus on practical application, as the title promises.

It sure seems like Todd and other thought leaders in what is sometimes called "Safety Differently" are on to something. The enemy of the questions is knowing. If you already "know" are are quite sure you know the answer, it is unlikely you'll ask useful questions. Why would you? You already know the answer. I love asking Senior Leadership if they want good information on which to make decisions. They always say, YES. Turns out if you ask better questions, you get better answers which means you've learned something which means you have better information on which to make decisions. Conklin for the win!

Very thought provoking. Gives guidance as well.

Great perspective to enable learning teams instead of event investigations. To engage the workers, with an emphasis on learning, developing capacity and confidence in both identifying the problems and solutions is powerful. I would also recommend that this sounds very much like Amy Edmondson's "Teaming" approach but Amy's book goes in different direction by providing the "Process Knowledge Spectrum" compliments Todd's book. Only complaint I have with this book is the that it too if full of typos, grammatical mistakes, and such that causes you to stubble or at least read and re-read passages, which I guess is not all bad either. GREAT INFORMATION!

Informative but not very well written. If that makes sense.