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Many organisations have prioritised identifying organisational issues as an outcome of their investigation process. Too often the issues identified are superficial and do not identify systemic issues.

Many organisations have prioritised identifying organisational issues as an outcome of their investigation process. Too often the issues identified are superficial and do not identify systemic issues.

Safety Differently is the name given to a movement within the safety industry that challenges organisations to view three key areas of their business differently – how safety is defined, the role of people, and the focus of the business.

The first principle of safety differently is engaging people as a solution to harness, rather than a problem to control.

In this webinar, Kelvin explores human-centred design and the principles of safety differently to build and sustain operational effective critical controls.

For safety professionals and safety teams, staying close to what matters in your role is crucial to being effective and bringing about change that can help improve the safety of work, now and in the future. This webinar shows you where to start.

Safety has traditionally been about the elimination of negative outcomes (incidents, injuries, errors, malfunctions). While this approach has lead to significant improvements it has also produced several problematic side effects: disengagement and disempowerment of people, increasing bureaucracy, loss of innovation and productivity.

Safety II principles and ideas are increasingly being explored by organisations as they seek to further improve their safety performance and re-shape their safety practices and culture.

Safety professionals and organisations all over the world are having conversations about Safety Differently.

Listen to Mark Alston as he discusses practical solutions to incident investigation based on the theory of ‘Safety Differently.