Why don’t new view thinkers apply their trade, e.g., local rationality, when describing Heinrich? Carsten Busch’s really interesting 2018 Masters thesis dives into this question and more. Some extracts: · Heinrich “is one of the most influential pioneers within safety. His concepts, originally from the late 1920s, influence safety practice and theory, even today” · It’s said… Continue reading Heinrich’s Local Rationality: Shouldn’t ‘New View’ Thinkers Ask Why Things Made Sense To Him? – Carsten Busch
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The Shift from System to Individual in Safety Approaches
I found these extracts interesting from Foundations of Safety Science – summarising some key developments and interpretations from over a century of safety-scientific approaches. They observe that despite a myriad of approaches, and developments, “almost every approach seems to end up reverting, one way or another, to the people who work in that system”. As… Continue reading The Shift from System to Individual in Safety Approaches