Conferences
Our Previous HRO Conferences:
Thank You! The Third International HRO Workshop January 9-10, 2010 was a great success!
List of All Speakers Page with Bios, Abstracts, Papers and Presentations (Additional proceedings will be posted as soon as possible.)
Plenary Lectures
Mindfulness for Performance: The basis of reliability
Karl Weick, PhD
The Codification of HRO
Karlene Roberts, PhD
The Codification of Naturalistic High Reliability Naturalistic HRO, Tom Mercer, ADM, USN (ret.) (No Picture Available)
Workshop Information PDF
Agenda PDF
Many of the following articles and documents on this page are available in pdf format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download it here.
2007
Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
European Conference, April/May 2007.
Deauville, Normandy, France
Philippe Baumard, PhD, and Gerard Koenig, PhD, continued the theme of combining HRO practitioner and academician in Deauville. They expanded the areas of presentation including HRO in national security (intelligence) and the opera. They increased presentations in modeling for placement of HRO in context with other theories of organization and high risk work.
2006
Grouping For Solutions: Increasing Organizational Reliability by Bringing Academicians and Practitioners Together
Ontario, CA, USA
Karlene Roberts, PhD, began to see the need to bring practitioners from disparate industries together for discussion of the common elements and principles of HRO. Dr. Roberts observed that HRO could serve numerous industries but that some industries might place emphasis on different organizing principles than another to reach the same level of high reliability. She realized that impediments to implementation existed but seemed to have a commonality, separated only by language. Ron Perkin, M.D, and Daved van Stralen, MD, had used science to support their practical model of critical care with great success in teaching it to resident physicians, nurses, respiratory care practitioners, and paramedics. John Mace, MD, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Loma Lind University School of Medicine, had described this approach as the "Blue-collar Ivory Tower." This became the approach used for the Ontario conference, to combine practitioner with academician, blending them for a presentation of the practical science of HRO.
Conference Notes
Participant List
2003
Getting It Right: Solving the Unsolvable (with duty to act)
Yucaipa, CA, USA
Daved van Stralen and Gary Provansal developed this conference to answer the question "Why does safety appear unsafe?" They had noted that many of the principles used by fire and EMS in the 1970s had become viewed as unsafe or unreliable while newer methods appeared to create difficult conditions for field providers. There also seemed a greater influence in medicine, EMS, and the fire service of the movie industry with greater melodrama and an increasingly rigid vertical hierarchy.
