Safety-II in Practice

CRC Press

Safety-II in PracticeDeveloping the Resilience Potentials\nAuthor(s): Erik Hollnagel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138708914, 978-1138708914\nSynopsis\nSafety-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 organisations 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.\n\nSafety-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.