Incremental Safety Practices

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-00117-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Incremental Safety Practices provides a systematic account of practical projects and programmes that have contributed to ensure that every-day work goes well.  It illustrates the benefits of an incremental safety approach that unites concerns for productivity and safety, rather than juxtaposing them, and relates practical experiences from managing complex industrial and social systems in the spirit of both Resilience Engineering and Safety-II.

This book presents a number of examples to illustrate how the incremental approach to safety has been realised worldwide and applied to several fields of practice. The book begins with an incremental safety manifesto. It provides a characterisation and assessment of the current situation regarding safety and safety management, and proposes the logical alternative to target zero, which is target centum (Latin for one hundred), meaning that 100% of all work activities should go well, and summarises and contrasts the perspectives of Safety-I and Safety-II. The chapters convey specific incremental safety activities that have taken place within a broad range of industries and geographical locations, and detailed comparative analyses by Hollnagel and Slater, identifying the common motivations, methods, evidence and actions that provide the knowledge that readers need to be able to understand, adapt and successfully apply incremental safety practices in their own work context.

Written at an intermediate professional level, but intentionally not technical, this book is for all middle managers, senior managers, independent consultants and safety professionals concerned with health, safety and environment.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hollnagel, Erik

Slater, David

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Qualitätsmanagement, Qualitätssicherung (QS), Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Einleitung: notwendig Kurswechsel (or Introduction: a necessary change of course) 1. Prologue: Background and Scope  Part I: Aviation  2. Learning from Normal Work: How Personal Flight Data Enables Incremental Safety in Commercial Aviation 3. Adaptive Safety Learning – Resilience and the Presence of Incremental Safety  Part II: Healthcare  4. Seven steps that make it easier for work to go well 5. Improving systems of care using Resilient Health Care principles: Facilitating family-initiated escalation of concerns in paediatric emergency care 6. Introduction of functional resonance analytical methodology (FRAM) into a large NHS healthcare institution 7. Advancing Healthcare Safety in the Netherlands through Incremental Learning Approaches 8. Enabling success in dynamic environments: incremental safety practices in the emergency CT pathway 9. Reinforcement learning in simulation-based team training in healthcare  Part III: Retail  10. Micro-experimenting for incremental safety 11. Incremental safety practices in large-scale logistics  Part IV: Other domains  12. Doing Difficult Work Well 13. Integration of Safety-I and Safety-II Perspectives in Mining 14. Incremental Safety Approach in an Italian Railway Company: Bridging Training and Consultancy  Part V: Editorial  15. Summary of Methods 16. Summary of Actions 17. Summary of Evidence: Incremental Safety Practices in Complex Systems – A Cross-Case Comparative Analysis 18. Epilogue: Incremental versus decremental safety

Über Autor(innen)

Erik Hollnagel is Scientific Director at the Institute of Resilient Systems Plus, Seoul, South Korea, Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia, Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universität München, Germany, and Professor Emeritus from universities in Sweden, France, and Denmark. His work focuses on unified system change and management. He is the author of more than 500 publications including articles from recognized journals, conference papers, and reports as well as 31 books, and is still struggling to make sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion.

David Slater is a director of the engineering consultancy Cambrensis Ltd and an Honorary Professor in the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK. His current research interests centre on trying to understand how complex sociotechnical systems behave in practice; having developed predictive system behaviour models for risk analysis and regulatory purposes in theory (Imperial College) and in practice (HMIP, Environment Agency and DG Environment (EC)). These models were applied to real-life incidents, from Flixborough to Grenfell Tower and COVID-19, and the development of these methodologies to include the human factor is his current focus. David is currently working with Cardiff University Hospital and the Manchester Children’s Hospital on systems to improve safety and resilience in healthcare.