Safety-I and Safety-II

Safety-I and Safety-II
Author :
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 201
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781472423078
ISBN-13 : 1472423070
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Safety-I and Safety-II by : Professor Erik Hollnagel

Download or read book Safety-I and Safety-II written by Professor Erik Hollnagel and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ‘avoiding that something goes wrong’ to ‘ensuring that everything goes right’. More precisely, Safety-II is the ability to succeed under varying conditions, so that the number of intended and acceptable outcomes is as high as possible. From a Safety-II perspective, the purpose of safety management is to ensure that as much as possible goes right, in the sense that everyday work achieves its objectives. This means that safety is managed by what it achieves (successes, things that go right), and that likewise it is measured by counting the number of cases where things go right. In order to do this, safety management cannot only be reactive, it must also be proactive. But it must be proactive with regard to how actions succeed, to everyday acceptable performance, rather than with regard to how they can fail, as traditional risk analysis does. This book analyses and explains the principles behind both approaches and uses this to consider the past and future of safety management practices. The analysis makes use of common examples and cases from domains such as aviation, nuclear power production, process management and health care. The final chapters explain the theoretical and practical consequences of the new perspective on the level of day-to-day operations as well as on the level of strategic management (safety culture). Safety-I and Safety-II is written for all professionals responsible for their organisation's safety, from strategic planning on the executive level to day-to-day operations in the field. It presents the detailed and tested arguments for a transformation from protective to productive safety management.


Safety-I and Safety-II Related Books

Safety-I and Safety-II
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Professor Erik Hollnagel
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 pu
Safety-II in Practice
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Erik Hollnagel
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-14 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’.
Resilient Health Care
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Professor Robert L Wears
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Properly performing health care systems require concepts and methods that match their complexity. Resilience engineering provides that capability. It focuses on
Safety Differently
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Sidney Dekker
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-23 - Publisher: CRC Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Rahul K. Shah
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-15 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This text uses a case-based approach to share knowledge and techniques on how to operationalize much of the theoretical underpinnings of hospital quality and sa