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Do Safety Differently Kindle Edition

by Sidney Dekker (Author), Todd Conklin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Doing Safety Differently

“It takes a long time to turn around an aircraft carrier.”

It is hard to change almost a lifetime of your organization’s thinking about safety in the traditional way and it is really difficult to change your organization’s history of bureaucracy that continues to reinforce the traditional safety definitions and metrics our organizations have used for many years. Let’s face it, change even for the better is hard to do. The answer for why this change takes so long can be found in the difficulty of making big changes to our organizations, organizations don’t want to change, organizations want to stay the same even if the same is no longer effective.

Over the last several years a new way to think about the safety of work has found its way into many organizations around the world. This new way to think about safety is leading to some important improvements in how work is being done and every organization wants to improve their safety performance. This new way to think about safety is exciting and effective and organizations have great desire and motivation to improve safety performance.

All the components for a big change are in place and ready, so why is this change to this new way of thinking nothappening at lightning speed in organizations everywhere? Change even for the better is hard to do and organizations seem to want to be told what they should actually do to create this successful change?

These are the questions that the book Doing Safety Differently strives to answer.

What are the chances Sidney Dekker and Todd Conklin would collaborate on a new book? The chances are 100%. These two authors, scholars, practitioners, and organizational members have combined their time and skill in addressing six topic areas that are vital to successful safety change.

Here is what Doing Safety Differently offers:
  • Safety: From outcome to capacity
  • When the work done is not as you imagined: Do learning teams
  • When things go wrong: Do investigations differently
  • When there is too much compliance: Declutter your safety bureaucracy
  • When your safety people are dejected: Empower them differently
  • When you need to help your leaders succeed

Doing Safety Differently is a discussion between two friends on what they have learned by watching organizations around the world change the way they do work. Doing Safety differently is an applied discussion, a practical discussion, that will cause the reader to think about the strategies and tactics they will need to ensure the best possible scenario for successful Doing Safety Differently.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09S7LVS37
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pre Accident Media - Santa Fe, New Mexico (February 9, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 9, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 433 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09RM3Z17V
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    Todd Conklin spent 25 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Senior Advisor for Organizational and Safety Culture. Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the world’s foremost research and development laboratories; Dr. Conklin has been working on the Human Performance program for the last 15 years of his 25-year career. It is in this fortunate position where he enjoys the best of both the academic world and the world of safety in practice. Conklin holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of New Mexico. He speaks all over the world to executives, groups and work teams who are interested in better understanding the relationship between the workers in the field and the organization’s systems, processes, and programs. He has brought these systems to major corporations around the world. Conklin practices these ideas not only in his own workplace, but also in the event investigations at other workplaces around the world. Conklin defines safety at his workplace like this: “Safety is the ability for workers to be able to do work in a varying and unpredictable world.” Conklin lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and thinks that Human Performance is the most meaningful work he has ever had the opportunity to live and teach.

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    Sidney Dekker is Professor of Human Factors and Flight Safety, and Director of Research at the School of Aviation, Lund University, Sweden. He has previously worked at the Public Transport Cooperation in Melbourne, Australia; the Massey University School of Aviation, New Zealand, British Aerospace, UK, and has been a Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His specialties and research interests are system safety, human error, reactions to failure and criminalization, and organizational resilience. He has some experience as a pilot, type trained on the DC-9and Airbus A340.

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If you are a practicing safety professional this book is for you. It’s a classic two for one proposition, both Sidney and Todd are individually at the top of this list for intelligent conversation on the state of health and safety in the workplace. To have a text that they collaborated on is unreal. The book definitely brings together several of the main themes of other works they have released and brings new insight into how to apply these ideas in the real world.Great read!
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D. Fuller
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent way to gain a new understanding of the art of safety
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023
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I've been following Sidney Dekker and Todd Conklin for years. I've used their ideas in many presentations on safety to many different organizations. This book gives you the information you need to understand safety in a new, more reasonable way. This is a must read for everyone who does work, including both managers and safety professionals. It is especially good for the person who works on the pointy end to understand how things happen, and help reduce the risk that those things cause harm. Because that's where safety is done.
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Josh
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for the Safety Pro.
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2022
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If you are a practicing safety professional this book is for you. It’s a classic two for one proposition, both Sidney and Todd are individually at the top of this list for intelligent conversation on the state of health and safety in the workplace. To have a text that they collaborated on is unreal. The book definitely brings together several of the main themes of other works they have released and brings new insight into how to apply these ideas in the real world.
Great read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for the Safety Pro.
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2022
If you are a practicing safety professional this book is for you. It’s a classic two for one proposition, both Sidney and Todd are individually at the top of this list for intelligent conversation on the state of health and safety in the workplace. To have a text that they collaborated on is unreal. The book definitely brings together several of the main themes of other works they have released and brings new insight into how to apply these ideas in the real world.
Great read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Liberating and frustrating.
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2022
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Liberating, because they formulate and explain the thoughts and feelings one self is unable to convey. Frustrating, because of the juggernaut of safetyism is seemingly unstoppable. The concrete advice given is excellent, but we still need to do something in those industries that are completely hogtied by State and international agencies. You simply cannot introduce safety differently in, say, aviation, without first killing the albatros around our neck, that is EU/EASA.
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Dee
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2023
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Great to see these two collaborators working together. Todd’s easy writing / reading style makes this very accessible.
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Brent Sutton
5.0 out of 5 stars Must goto for new people wanting to explore doing safety differently.
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2022
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This combined effort of two highly respected individuals, is a great entry for those wanting to explore doing safety differently. And is written in a conversational style that helps us reflect on the subject matter. And explore further topics on how to operationalise the new view.

Full disclosure I am the author of the book “The Practice of Learning Teams”.
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Stephen C. Foster
5.0 out of 5 stars Just Do It Differently
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2022
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My career has been filled with "more of the same" with the expectation that this time things will be safer. I've been seeking means and methods to do safety differently and this book, along with Sidney and Todd's other work is helping me find the way. Thank you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this !
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023
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Great book on doing safety differently.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Who published this?
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022
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I have never owned a book with such poor formatting. For example, different size fonts in the same paragraph and some pages are only half-filled with text for no apparent reason. I want a refund on this piece of crap.
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DH
5.0 out of 5 stars The “How”, as promised
Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2022
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Todd and Sidney seamlessly deliver the how of Safety 2.0. A must read for organizations embarking on their next leg of safety improvement. Also useful for organizations looking at sustaining their transitions, by asking “how well are we doing in this area” and utilizing the useful questions Todd and Sidney provide at the end of each chapter.

For a good overview listen to PAPod 378 which dropped on Feb 12, 2022, where the authors discuss the genesis and evolution of the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in Australia on August 4, 2023
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There is nothing I can dislike. The book’s awesome and I got a great discount too. Winner
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Tomo in Oz
4.0 out of 5 stars Food for Thought
Reviewed in Australia on June 15, 2023
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Interesting ideas and worth taking the time read. Certainly elements of the overall premise to “do safety differently: are valid topics for discussion with your team.
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