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When I discovered that one of my favourite podcasts, This American Life had released a episode entitled Human Error In Volatile...

Every week, my friend Jono Hey produces a newsletter called Sketchplanations. As the name implies, it’s something explained through the...

A Business Week article entitled “How Hollywood insures against actors behaving badly” caught my eye over the festive period. It explains...

A strike by British Airways (BA) pilots highlights an often-ignored driver of Human Risk: customers. This weekend BA was supposed to be...

Having launched this site a week ago, I was worried that I might not have anything to blog about. Maybe Human Risk wasn’t really a thing....

As winter ends in the northern hemisphere, many people will be engaged in the age-old ritual of spring cleaning. This year, they’re very...

Welcome to the third part of my blog series on Friction. In Part I, I looked at what Friction is, highlighting that it can be both “good”...

Quite a lot, it turns out… In Part I of this series, I explored the concept of Cognitive Friction and highlighted the difference between...

Ask any Behavioural Scientist how you can get people to do what you want them to, and you’re very likely to get the same answer. Here it...

I’m always on the lookout for Behavioural Science (BeSci) techniques that we can deploy in the service of mitigating Human Risk. In this...

A CoVideo with a difference If you work in Compliance, Risk, HR or any other function that involves training people, then there’s a...

Deloitte has just published a report entitled The Future Of Risk in which they highlight ten trends impacting the risk landscape for...

Just published (to support his new book) is a fabulous article from Dan Ariely, one of the godfathers of behavioural science. In it, he...

We’re hearing lots about how Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to transform risk functions, with machines taking over...

Mass redundancies at a Bank saw a manifestation of Human Risk in action. But not in the way you might think… Last week photographers were...

I recently wrote about an Indian nuclear submarine that had to be decommissioned for 10 months because someone failed to properly close a...

I’ve just come across this interesting Wired magazine article that highlights why an increasing use of AI means an increasing need to be...