The Uncertainty of...Safety Culture Improvement Engineered or Emergent?

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Join us for a thought-provoking session on the next episode of The Uncertainty of show with James Burnell discussing Safety Culture Improvement: engineered or emergent?

As humans we are experts at developing engineering solutions which provide a level of Certainty. A popular belief is that Management can envision an ideal safety culture. We can then engineer this desired culture in the same way we design and build a robust machine.

In this show we explore another region of the real world that is Uncertain and Unpredictable. For context we will look at the Aviation Industry from a Robustness and Resilience perspective.

Questions we will address:

• Why does the Blunt end of the Safety Spear (regulators, elected officials) prefer a robust approach to improve a resilient safety culture?
• What if there was a different view of safety culture - not one that can be engineered but one that emerges naturally from systemic changes?
• How might using sense-making methods and tools be ‘faster, better, cheaper’ to improve safety culture?