LEADing your safety culture: an integrated approach to Safety-I/Safety-II

Although much has been said about the virtues and potential of adopting a ‘Safety-II’ approach, little empirical data yet exists to support such claims. Further, Safety-II is often interpreted as a wholesale transformation of safety management, which risks ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’. Finally, much of the Safety-II discussion is theoretical and philosophical in nature, which makes practical implementation difficult. In response to these issues, we put forward and rigorously test an integrated model of safety culture and climate that incorporates both Safety-I and Safety-II concepts.

In this presentation, Dr Casey will describe two fundamental safety management dilemmas that can be successfully resolved through developing specific cultural and climate capabilities. Dr Casey will also present the LEAD model – a practical, dynamic and evidence-based framework that industry can use to achieve sustainable compliance. Finally, he will showcase the aggregate results of a cross-university validation project that involved over 5000 workers from industry and the piloting of a safety culture improvement process. Conference participants will be given an exclusive opportunity to participate in a free measurement of their safety culture and climate through the Safety Leadership at Work Program.