The fifth paradox of safety: New article from Erik Hollnagel

Are our efforts to make ‘safety’ more measurable actually making it harder to manage?

New article from Erik Hollnagel is available on his site – discussing four paradoxes from James Reason, and then his own fifth addition. See attached image.

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