New safety perspective focuses on investigating what goes right

摘要

At a recent team meeting of an investigation into an incident on a production platform, one team member raised the point that the proce dure, drafted specifically for the activity, was not foUowed. This is quite a com mon comment in current perspectives on safety. This example and the underpin ning beliefs about safety will be used in this article to highlight two complemen tary perspectives on safety - Safety I and Safety II (Hollnagel, 2014). These perspectives were introduced by Erik Hollnagel, a leading professor in the field of safety.