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Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management

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Hollnagel, Erik, Professor

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9781472423061, 9781472423085

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Ashgate

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Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low as possible, or as low as is reasonably practicable. This means that safety management must start from the manifestations of the absence of safety and that – paradoxically – safety is measured by counting the number of cases where it fails rather than by the number of cases where it succeeds. This unavoidably leads to a reactive approach based on responding to what goes wrong or what is identified as a risk – as something that could go wrong.

Focusing on what goes right, rather than on what goes wrong, changes the definition of safety from

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Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management

SKU: 9781472423078

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Full Title

Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management

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Hollnagel, Erik, Professor

Edition
ISBN

9781472423078, 9781472423085

Publisher

Routledge

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PDF and EPUB

Description

Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low as possible, or as low as is reasonably practicable. This means that safety management must start from the manifestations of the absence of safety and that – paradoxically – safety is measured by counting the number of cases where it fails rather than by the number of cases where it succeeds. This unavoidably leads to a reactive approach based on responding to what goes wrong or what is identified as a risk – as something that could go wrong.

Focusing on what goes right, rather than on what goes wrong, changes the definition of safety from