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dc.contributor.authorProvan, David J
dc.contributor.authorWoods, David D
dc.contributor.authorDekker, Sidney WA
dc.contributor.authorRae, Andrew J
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-26T23:55:51Z
dc.date.available2019-11-26T23:55:51Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn0951-8320
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ress.2019.106740
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/389308
dc.description.abstractThe safety management literature describes two distinct modes through which safety is achieved. These can be described as safety management through centralized control, or safety management through guided adaptability. Safety management through centralized control, labelled by Hollnagel as ‘Safety-I’, aims to align and control the organization and its people through the central determination of what is safe. Safety management through guided adaptability, or ‘Safety-II’, aims to enable the organization and its people to safely adapt to emergent situations and conditions. Safety-II has been presented as a paradigm shift in safety theory, but it has created practical difficulties for safety professional practice. In this paper, we define the two modes of safety management and explain the challenges in changing the role of a safety professional to support Safety-II. When should safety professionals re-enforce alignment, and when should they support frontline adaptations? We outline specific activities for safety professionals to adopt in their role to move towards a guided adaptability mode of safety management. This will move the safety professional further towards their fundamental responsibility – ‘to create foresight about the changing shape of risk, and facilitate action, before people are harmed.’
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom106740: 1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto106740: 14
dc.relation.ispartofjournalReliability Engineering & System Safety
dc.relation.ispartofvolume195
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOccupational and workplace health and safety
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEngineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMathematical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350505
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode35
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode40
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode49
dc.titleSafety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationProvan, DJ; Woods, DD; Dekker, SWA; Rae, AJ, Safety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020, 195, pp. 106740: 1-106740: 14
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2019-11-20T00:37:02Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorRae, Drew J.
gro.griffith.authorDekker, Sidney


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