The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Professor Erik Hollnagel (The Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
to lead a seminar entitled
From Safety-I to Safety-II:
The past and future of safety management
to be held
Wednesday 16 October 2013 @ 17:30
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Lecture Theatre G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London
Maps and travel directions: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/southkensington
Please register for this event using the following link:
https://skempton.wufoo.eu/forms/the-lloyds-register-foundation/
The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
Abstract
Safety has traditionally been understood as a state where the number of things that go wrong is as low as possible (Safety-I). From this perspective, the purpose of safety management is to keep the number of accidents and incidents as low as possible. Safety management therefore starts from manifestations of the absence of safety and paradoxically measures the level of safety by counting the number of failures rather than the number of successes. This leads to a reactive approach of responding to what goes wrong or what has been identified as a risk.
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 this perspective, the purpose of safety management is to ensure that everyday work achieves its objectives. Safety management therefore starts from what happens when safety is present and measures the level of safety by counting the number things that go right. This leads to a proactive approach that sustains everyday acceptable performance, rather than one that prevents hazards from being realised.
About the Speaker
Erik Hollnagel is Professor at the Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark (DK), Chief Consultant at the Centre for Quality, Region of Southern Denmark, and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science, University of Linköping (S). He has through his career worked at universities, research centres, and industries in several countries and with problems from many domains including nuclear power generation, aerospace and aviation, software engineering, land-based traffic, and healthcare.
His professional interests include industrial safety, resilience engineering, patient safety, accident investigation, and modelling large-scale socio-technical systems. He has published widely and is the author/editor of 20 books, including five books on resilience engineering, as well as a large number of papers and book chapters. The latest titles, from Ashgate, are "Resilient Health Care", "FRAM - the Functional Resonance Analysis Method," "Governance and control of financial systems", and "Resilience engineering in practice: A guidebook". Erik also coordinates the Resilient Health Care net (www.resilienthealthcare.net) and the FRAMily
The following CTS seminar
Ms Melissa Duell (The University of New South Wales, Australia) will be leading a seminar titled "How road elevation affects vehicle energy consumption and eco-routing from a network perspective" at UCL on Wednesday 23 October @ 16:00
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties. Booking is not required.
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