In 2014, Erik Hollnagel published Safety-I and Safety-II; Sidney Dekker’s second edition of Safety Differently followed in 2015. The progressive ideas in these books have contributed greatly to the debate on ‘positive risk management’ and found attentive audiences in OSH journals and at conferences. The narrative around risk management is increasingly being infiltrated by a new terminology: ‘people-centric’, ‘inclusive’, ‘plus one’, ‘beyond compliance’, ‘culture of mutual trust’, ‘person-centred thinking’ and ‘risk-aware decision-making’. Reflecting this, accountancy firm EY has said: ‘It is necessary to step forward to a new, more relevant, effective way of managing safety.’

Geoff Trickey on how OSH professionals can break with an ‘enforcer’ tradition to make new people-centred models of risk management a success.

Read the full article here – as published in  IOSH Magazine Issue July/August 2022