Safety-II in Practice Developing the Resilience Potentials

"A truly original world-class thinker, Hollnagel's work should be heeded by every safety and health professional. It's hard going at times, as he profoundly challenges the traditional ways in which we understand and manage safety. But he does offer a new vision that is potentially very valuable to practitioners. In particular, Safety II could help us to revolutionise how we view accident and incident data (and the use we make of this information) and position ourselves as risk managers, not just as safety and health specialists.

This approach could also give us powerful new leverage with directors and senior leaders - by changing the agenda from how we can meet the minutiae of safety and health law to how we can best work together to ensure our organisations survive and thrive."

Paul Smith MA CFIOSH, IOSH Magazine and former Health & Safety Executive inspector