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Safety-II in Practice
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Safety-II in Practice

by Erik Hollnagel
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
4h 39m
English
Routledge
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Causality credo. Within the Safety-I tradition, explanations of how accidents happen share the unspoken assumption that outcomes can be understood as effects that follow from prior causes. Since that corresponds to a belief – or even a faith – in the law of causality, it may be called a causality credo. Reasoning according to the causality credo goes through the following steps: (1) adverse outcomes happen because something has gone wrong; (2) if enough evidence is collected, it will be possible to find the causes and then eliminate, encapsulate or otherwise neutralise them and (3) since all adverse outcomes have causes, and since all causes can be found and dealt with, it follows that all accidents can be prevented. The Zero Accident ...

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ISBN: 9781351780759