Safety II Professionals: The Future of Our Role in Organisations

Dr. David Provan discusses Safety II and how it might transform the roles of safety professionals going forward

What’s covered?

Organisations invest considerable resources in dedicated safety roles, teams and entire safety departments in the pursuit of understanding and managing safety risk. However, 30 years of research concludes that safety practitioners are largely not performing this role effectively in practice.

This webinar explains how we can use emerging theories of Safety II, Resilience Engineering and Safety Differently to transform the purpose, tasks and activities of safety practitioners to help them create foresight about the changing shape of risk, and facilitate action in their organisations before people are harmed.

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Want to learn more? Recommended reading from Dr. Provan

Safety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice. (Download for free)
Hollnagel, E. (2018). Safety-I and safety-II: the past and future of safety management. (Amazon link)
Hollnagel, E. (2017). Safety-II in practice: developing the resilience potentials. (Amazon link)

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Dr. David Provan
david.provan@forgeworks.com

Dr. David Provan is the Managing Director of Forge Works safety consultancy, and a part-time research fellow at Griffith University. He has a 20 year career as a Safety Executive across the rail, construction and oil and gas industries. His academic research interests include the operationalisation of Safety II and Resilience Engineering, and what it means for the current and future role of safety professionals within organisations.

David is the co-host of ‘the safety of work’ podcast with Dr. Drew Rae which discusses safety science research findings in a practical way, so that organisations can move further towards evidence based safety practice.