Book review and safety management discussion: risk, regulation, and resilience.
"… resilience, not regulation, is the ultimate form of safety."
"… the safest societies are not those that prevent all failures, but those that learn fastest from them."
The resilience mindset in aviation:
Accept uncertainty.
Detect early.
Respond flexibly.
Learn continuously.
Distribute authority and knowledge.
"Aaron Wildavsky’s
Searching for Safety (1988) on risk management and public policy. The book challenges the dominant idea that safety can be achieved through regulation and control, proposing instead that resilience and adaptability offer a more effective path to societal safety. Wildavsky contrasts two core strategies — “anticipation” and “resilience” — and argues that overregulation and excessive precaution can paradoxically make societies less safe."
resilience is safer than anticipation
https://chatgpt.com/share/68eb7b92-9...c-db55ecf6f3f1
P.S. The word 'Risk' in this discussion relates more to a situation involving exposure to danger (hazards) opposed to chance or possibility used in some risk assessments.