Our efforts in health and safety typically “comprises ‘unsafety’ than about the substantive properties of safety itself”.
Or so said James Reason in his 2000 article ‘Safety paradoxes and safety culture’.
What he meant is that the militant focus on extrapolation from incidents and investigations provides a narrow slice of system effectiveness when risk protections were absent (unsafety), rather than necessarily informing on when ‘safety’ is present.
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