The Emperor has no clothes: A critique of Safety-II

Cooper, M. Dominic

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2020.105047

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“…As a relatively young theory, Safety-II remains underdeveloped, particularly regarding empirical validation and practical, easy-touse implementation tools. 52,53 Regardless, the paradigm of Safety-II can prove synergistic with the abovementioned principles. By recognizing that human behavioral variations can lead to harm or safety, Safety-II encourages systems thinking as organizations seek to understand the complex interactions between people, technology, policies, and practices.…”

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“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”: advancing patient safety by better managing the paradox of planning versus adaptation

Call,

Espiritu,

Barrows

2024

International Anesthesiology Clinics

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Section: Safety-iimentioning

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“…As a relatively young theory, Safety-II remains underdeveloped, particularly regarding empirical validation and practical, easy-to-use implementation tools 52,53 . Regardless, the paradigm of Safety-II can prove synergistic with the abovementioned principles.…”

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“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”: advancing patient safety by better managing the paradox of planning versus adaptation

Call,

Espiritu,

Barrows

2024

International Anesthesiology Clinics

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“…In keeping with wider all-industry research and practice, UK construction was also beginning to develop an interest in alternative theories of OSH management. Moving on from the traditional dichotomy of structural, top-down controls and bottom-up person-centred perspectives (Hale and Borys 2013), the industry had begun to explore what has been termed a 'New View' of occupational safety (Cooper 2022). The New View encompasses a number of different approaches to safety management including Safety II (Hollnagel 2014), Adaptive Safety (Borys.…”

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The power of a pandemic: how Covid-19 should transform UK construction worker health, safety and wellbeing

Sherratt

Dainty

2022

Construction Management and Economics

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The world will never be the same again, and neither will the UK construction industry. As one of the few sectors projected to bounce back rapidly from the pandemic, positive rhetoric abounds in the industry press, Government and quasi-governmental bodies about the opportunity that lies ahead to 'Build Back Better'. Something else that could and more importantly should never be the same again is the health, safety and wellbeing (HSW) of the UK construction workforce. Pre-Covid-19, UK construction was neither a safe nor a healthy place to work, and transforming this situation is arguably the most important win our industry can secure from this situation. In this essay we argue that the pandemic and associated socio-economic crisis offers a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to bounce forward to a 'new normal' of healthy, safe and hygienic construction operations, one where the worker's psychological wellbeing shares the foreground with their physical welfare. This paradigm shift will require a radical redefinition of the matters of concern that shape construction practice, moving away from a focus on sites as the locus of production, to a focus on people. Moreover, we suggest that there is a concurrent obligation on the research community to support such a transition by using the pandemic as a new point of departure for shifting the safety discourse via more critical research approaches. These should question the axioms which currently define the ways in which projects are constituted and managed, and where production takes primacy over the workers that deliver it.

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“…Of course, the literature has criticized such developments both conceptually and practically 18,19 , causing this new view to break with the patterns and dimensions of current traditional safety practices 10 . Instead, some companies have successfully conducted experiments in using and implementing new safety such as, for example, a chain of stores 7 and a water treatment and distribution company in Australia 17 .…”

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Perspectives of the new safety

Filho

2022

Rev. bras. saúde ocup.

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Cook and Woods 1 , in a seminal article, point ways to overcome the notion of 'human error' as an explanation to industrial incidents and their investigations. In the nine steps the authors proposed, analyses should (1) seek 'second stories' to explain events b , (2) protect themselves from experts' hindsight bias, (3) know operators' work, (4) seek 'systemic vulnerabilities', (5) unveil the production of safety by practice, (6) search for factors distal to the event, (7) examine how macro-determinants produce new vulnerabilities, (8) use technologies to support and favor operators' performance, and (9) control the complexity of systems by new forms of feedback.These authors' conception of safety is not inherent to the design and operation of production systems, i.e., not only assured by technological choices, equipment maintenance, strict compliance to procedures, and the control of operators' behavior. In the case of complex systems, interrelations between several functions and process variables can lead systems to an operating state with which operators are unfamiliar. Thus, certain circumstances normalize the occurrence of possible incidents which operation teams fail to detect.

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The Emperor has no clothes: A critique of Safety-II

Cited by 29 publications

References 155 publications

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”: advancing patient safety by better managing the paradox of planning versus adaptation

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”: advancing patient safety by better managing the paradox of planning versus adaptation

The power of a pandemic: how Covid-19 should transform UK construction worker health, safety and wellbeing

Perspectives of the new safety

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