Description
Book SynopsisSafety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this freedom'. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed out from the very beginning that resilient performance - an organisation's ability to function as required under expected and unexpected conditions alike required more than the prevention of incidents and accidents. This developed into a new interpretation of safety (Safety-II) and consequently a new form of safety management.
Safety-II changes safety management from protective safety and a focus on how things can go wrong, to productive safety and a focus on how things can and do go well. For Safety-II, the aim is not just the elimination of hazards and the prevention of failures and malfunctions but also how best to develop an organisation's potentials for resilient performance
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"A truly original world-class thinker, Hollnagel’s work should be heeded by every safety and health professional. It’s hard going at times, as he profoundly challenges the traditional ways in which we understand and manage safety. But he does offer a new vision that is potentially very valuable to practitioners. In particular, Safety II could help us to revolutionise how we view accident and incident data (and the use we make of this information) and position ourselves as risk managers, not just as safety and health specialists.
This approach could also give us powerful new leverage with directors and senior leaders – by changing the agenda from how we can meet the minutiae of safety and health law to how we can best work together to ensure our organisations survive and thrive."
Paul Smith MA CFIOSH, IOSH Magazine and former Health & Safety Executive inspector
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Safety Management Anno 2016
Chapter 2: What Does ‘Resilience’ Mean?
Chapter 3: The Basis For Resilient Performance
Chapter 4: The Resilience Potentials
Chapter 5: RAG – The Resilience Assessment Grid
Chapter 6: RAG – Towards a Model of Resilient Performance
Chapter 7: Developing Resilience Potentials
Chapter 8: The Changing Face of Safety
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