From Safety to Safely

Auteur

Erik Hollnagel is Scientific Director at the Institute of Resilient Systems+, Seoul, South Korea; Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University, Australia; Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universitat München, Germany; and Professor Emeritus at universities in Sweden, France, and Denmark. His work focuses on unified system change and management. Erik is the author of more than 500 publications including articles from recognised journals, conference papers, and reports as well as 28 books, and he is still struggling to make sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion.

Texte du rabat

This book provides a practical perspective on managing safely, illustrating a practical form of synesis. It offers a new understanding of safety, combining concerns for productivity and safety rather than juxtaposing them, and shows how to manage complex industrial and social systems in the spirit of Resilience Engineering and Synesis.

Contenu

Foreword by Sidney Dekker, Foreword by Andrew Sharman, Part I: The safety legacy, Part II: The complexity conundrum, Part III: The futility of accident investigation, Part IV: Systemic potentials management, Part V: Coda: connecting the dots