The Safety Anarchist

NOTE EDITORE

Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. 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. Many incident- and injury rates have flatlined. 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. We make workers do a lot that does nothing to improve their success locally. 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.

SOMMARIO

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: A Case for Change Chapter 2: We know what’s best for you Chapter 3: Authoritarian High Modernism Chapter 4: The safety bureaucracy Chapter 5: What gets measured, gets manipulated Chapter 6: The infantilization of us Chapter 7: A new religion Chapter 8: A non-deterministic world Chapter 9: Anarchy versus anarchism Chapter 10: Ways out References Index

AUTORE

Sidney Dekker (PhD, The Ohio State University, 1996) is currently Professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, where he runs the Safety Science Innovation Lab. More at sidneydekker.com

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781138300446
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.15 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 3 b/w images, 2 tables and 3 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 242