| Description |
1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Summary |
Quantum Safety is the most comprehensive review of Health & Safety in half a century. Most organizational approaches to Health & Safety are based on the methodology developed during the 1970s, and despite the workplace changing beyond recognition since that time, these approaches have remained untouched. Quantum Safety will develop a new understanding fit for the modern workplace. Quantum Safety is an approach that is part of the ⁰́₈"new view" debate. There have been a number of other new approaches to Health & Safety in recent years, and while all have merit and improve understanding to help create the optimal, safe working environment, they have failed to significantly create the change desired. These approaches are often flawed at the philosophical or conceptual level or propose a solution without a pathway to implement the principles in safety critical environments. Quantum Safety is founded on a wholesale critical analysis of the conceptual foundations of Health & Safety before translating the revised principles into a tangible methodology. Central to the development of Quantum Safety is the application of Complexity Science. The traditional approach to Health & Safety is considered to be Newtonian -- It uses linear models and deterministic analysis. Quantum Safety, due to the full consideration of Complexity Science, introduces multidimensional models and develops analysis based on probabilities. Crucially, this does not render Newtonian methodologies as worthless -- In the same manner that Newtonian Physics was able to take mankind to the moon, but required the Quantum understanding within computers to make it possible, Quantum Safety provides the mechanisms to complete organizations safety based journeys. The new mechanisms are fully developed for the reader at both macro and micro levels. How an organization measures safety and what it values is reset and reexamined. How we investigate adverse events and the consequential actions taken with employees to develop a true Just Culture within a high performing culture are also completely revised. Essentially, Quantum Safety creates a pathway for understanding Health & Safety in the complex modern world. To achieve that, new models are introduced to replace the dated, simple tools and a new language developed to communicate this powerful model. It will help propel an organization from considering safety within a concept of industrialized failure avoidance to valuing safety as an integrated aspect of high performance. |
| Contents |
Table of ContentsForewordList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Newtonian Safety and the New View Refraction1.1 Newtonian SafetyNew Views1.2.1 The first New View: Behavioural Based SafetySafety IISafety DifferentlySafety IIIThe New View LandscapeMoving into the Quantum WorldChapter 2: Let⁰́₉s talk about complexity2.1 Different types of systems2.2 Systems, complexity and emergenceComplexity Law & OrderChapter 3: The Lilypond. A new conceptual model to understand safety performance in the modern, complex workplace.The view from above3.1.1 Outcome representationA non-monochrome worldBelow the surface of the LilypondAn intricate ecosystemInteractionsHierarchiesChapter 4: Understanding The Lilypond Model, organisational safety performance and the performance continuum. Human Factors Taxonomies4.2 The Continuum of Human & Organisational PerformanceThe Philosophical RealmThe Organisational RealmThe Personal RealmUsing the Continuum of Human & Organisational PerformanceChapter 5: A different school of Quantum Safety: Moving into the experimental worldThe Organisational RealmThe Personal RealmCreating your Continuum ProfileChapter 6: The Human Performance Foxtrot6.1 Systems soliloquySystems dance partnerPartners on the dancefloorDancing the FoxtrotUnderstanding the danceWhy we need to embrace our partnerChapter 7: Just Culture: Why it isn⁰́₉t just and how it could beLeaving blameRevisiting the idea of justiceJust Culture for the modern, complex workplaceSafety I & Safety IILearn not blameSystems thinkingCivility & respectA new modelChapter 8: Learning from everythingAn adverse event in healthcareAdopting a Just CultureReason⁰́₉s Classical Just Culture Dekker⁰́₉s Restorative Just CultureJust Culture in Quantum SafetyAn adverse event in railAdopting a Just CultureReason⁰́₉s Classical Just Culture Dekker⁰́₉s Restorative Just CultureJust Culture in Quantum SafetyChapter 9: Beneath the surface of the Lilypond. Understanding causation in complex systemsCausation within The LilypondUnderstanding different types of human workWhen causation and complexity meetAdaptive behaviours within The LilypondDeveloping Causal and Non-Causal VariationChapter 10: Learning when we don⁰́₉t dock in the bay Causal Variation in practice10.1.1 The PlanThe EventThe ClimateThe SignificanceThe ActionInvestigating using Causal Variation AnalysisThe Wakashio groundingThe Plan: WakashioThe Event: WakashioThe Climate: WakashioThe Significance: WakashioThe Action: WakashioChapter 11: Continual coaching. Moving from outcome to process.How learning opportunities are utilised currentlyResponding to adverse eventsSpecific feedbackPost event briefingFacilitated Learning & Improvement ConversationsAdaptationsInteractionsDecisionsChapter 12: The way ahead: Developing a roadmap with Quantum SafetyInstitutions & doctrinesCats & WatermelonsSafety Management System: The Babushka editRituals and routinesThe Quantum Safety Roadmap |
| Biography |
Paul Stretton is a safety scientist based in Edinburgh, UK. Throughout his career, high performance has been a consistent priority, working within education, sports, safety consultant in the construction industry, public speaking champion and coach, as well as supporting leadership and patient safety change within the NHS. More recently, his work has focused on developing safety leadership and culture change processes and he is the pioneer of an approach called Quantum Safety, where high performance, new views of safety, quality improvement methodologies and Complexity Science combine to deliver meaningful and lasting change to performance in the modern workplace. This has been validated by his authorship of work published in international peer reviewed academic literature and has been the subject of widely attended online webinars. Quantum Safety is endorsed by world-renowned safety experts and is being utilized within the NHS currently. Paul's website is: https://www.quantum-safety.com |
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Industrial safety.
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Occupational Health |
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Sécurité du travail. |
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occupational safety. |
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Industrial safety |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781032007939 |
| ISBN |
9781003175742 (electronic bk.) |
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1003175740 (electronic bk.) |
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9781000543827 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
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100054382X (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
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9781000543858 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
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1000543854 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003175742 doi |
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