The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138300462 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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More at sidneydekker. Sidney Dekker (PhD, The Ohio State University, 1996) is currently Professor of Social Science at Griffith University in Brisbane, where he runs the Safety Science Innovation Lab
Many incident- and injury rates have flatlined. We make workers do a lot that does nothing to improve their success locally. Worse, excellent safety performance on low-consequence events tends to increase the risk of fatalities and disasters. Bureaucracy and compliance now seem less about managing the safety of the workers we are responsible for, and more about managing the liability of the people they work for. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed to a crawl. Paradoxically, such tightening of safety bureaucracy robs us of exactly the source of human insight, creativity and resilience that can tell us how success is actually created, and where the next accident may well happen. It is time for Safety Anarchists: people who trust people more than process, who rely on horizontally coordinating experiences and innovations, who push back against petty rules and coercive compliance, and who help recover the dignity and expertise of human work.. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Work has never been as safe as it seems today
Let’s hope he never returns to our State.' 'Best work on health and safety I have ever seen. What a waste of money. Dekker avoids all the usual garbage and bureaucratese that is so counterproductive to safety, and which completely bedevils the safety profession and regulators.' Audience responses to Safety Anarchist lecture, 2016. Does this man honestly believe that 250 years after the industrial revolution safety professionals have made little or no difference to reducing the risk of injury in workplaces…what a disgrace!! And then he goes on to say that if a worker gets killed at work he must have been a good worker, is he serious? I was absolutely gobsmacked at his comment. Thoroughly researched, real-life examples and common sense. 'Having been