SellaTheChemistOne of the many reasons why we have ethics committees to help us think through some of our experiments. #safety #learning #history #ethics #LOL
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Closed down my link to twitterVerse what feels like an age ago. Engineer in process safety. Cyclist. continual learner; bewildered by culture wars; usually pleasantly surprised by my offspring.
Over the last 15 years a good chunk of my work has been associated with trying to make usable the work carried out by "very efficient people (TM)".
Large chunks of work have been made single use because we don't know what was actually tested. Other work has been made re-usable as the archived paper files contained the necessary meta data, but at a cost many 100s of times the few seconds originally saved.
Large chunks of work have been made single use because we don't know what was actually tested. Other work has been made re-usable as the archived paper files contained the necessary meta data, but at a cost many 100s of times the few seconds originally saved.
On Mastodon the "efficiency" gain might be not to write alt text on images
For other work the inefficiency is often something which adds long-term value. This is often something like the meta data that makes something easily retrievable or pins down context, or exactly what was tested, say. Other inefficiencies include looking up previous work before testing; writing up and filing rather than leaving advice or results in emails; recording details of observations; checking you are using the latest template, guidelines, standard, regulation
See also constitutions
The friction or "inefficiencies" in many systems are related to the main value of those systems. These are the things many people try and engineer out so processes are slicker.
I work in the chemical industry: people moan about risk assessments and management of change as getting in the way of swift action. However, the purpose of these is to make people systematically think through their proposed actions. If you treat it as just completion of the paperwork associated then you miss the point.
I work in the chemical industry: people moan about risk assessments and management of change as getting in the way of swift action. However, the purpose of these is to make people systematically think through their proposed actions. If you treat it as just completion of the paperwork associated then you miss the point.
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Erotic Mythology 🌹My dad is a journalist. He wrote about a pilot project with self-driving busses recently. And something that none of the men I have talked to seem to realise is that it is fucking scary to think that you are in a bus alone at night without a driver and then someone starts harassing you. My male friend said "what is the bus driver gonna do?" but honestly, just the presence of another person is often enough. And a bus driver can call the police or stop the bus if need be, there are options.
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