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Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management
Erik Hollnagel
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Description for Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472423085
SKU
V9781472423085
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Erik Hollnagel
Erik Hollnagel (Ph.D., psychology) is Professor at the Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark and Chief Consultant at the Centre for Quality, Region of Southern Denmark. He is also Professor Emeritus at University of Linköping (Sweden), and Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universität München (Germany). He has since 1971 worked at ... Read more
Reviews for Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management
’Much more than a technical book. Erik’s work is a well documented journey into the multiple interactions between safety, work and human nature. A timely contribution to vindicate human beings and their variability from the one sided focus on the evils of human error. A groundbreaking look at the other story that will certainly contribute to safer and more productive ... Read more