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Old 19th February 2026 | 15:01
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PEI_3721
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What is safety

A CRM perspective
"… you get to decide how you consider, how to understand the situation.
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
… isn’t about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about."


https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5ukgj...=h1rsldm5&dl=0



Academic definition - safety science
"No single precise definition of safety emerged from within the community, and thus a shared definition remains elusive."

Past - a condition or state. Present - activity which can be adjusted. Future - proactive, resilience

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...25753525000232 (View pdf)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-w...aign=share_via

This (safety) is as good as it gets; don't disturb what we have achieved with new interventions, particularly if we don't know how we achieved 'safety'.
"… violations are symptoms of adaptation, not of loss of control."

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnits...=ruovkdrs&dl=0


… and what ever it (safety) is called, lets change it - academics.

"Worry not. The early retirement does not refer to me. It is far too late for that. It refers to Safety-I and Safety-II which I earnestly want to retire and remove from public view. They are both by now old and tired concepts, that need some rest. Safety-I and Safety-II were thrust on an unsuspecting world in 2014. But ideas age faster than people, at least by one order of magnitude, so it is time to send Safety-I and Safety-II into retirement now, before they reach senility. They are replaced by decremental and incremental safety, which basically represent the same thing, namely two different approaches to achieve a state of safety (defined as having as few unexpected and unacceptable outcomes as possible). The newcomers will hopefully make it impossible to "infer" the existence of something like Safety-III or similar foolishness (although human folly so far seems to have no limits)."

Perhaps this is the background as to why we - the working industry - achieve little improvement; yet alternatively trying too hard might disturb what has been achieved.
An indication of a widening cultural gap in thinking about and between 'safety as imagined' by academics, and 'safety as done', by the workers.

https://incrementalsafety.com/oneweb...20oct%2007.pdf

https://incrementalsafety.com

Keep calm and carry on.

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