The first rule of safety culture

Detta seminarium ("Master Class") kommer att ledas av Carsten Bush, och baseras på hans senaste bok, "The First Rule of Safety Culture". 

Alla deltagare förväntas ha läst boken och vara beredda att dela med sig av egna erfarenheter och tankar kopplat till innehållet i boken.

Boken är på engelska, och seminariet hålls på "skandinavisk" (Carsten pratar norska).

Anställda i IPS medlemsföretag är välkomna att delta utan kostnad. Antalet deltagare är dock begränsat. För att ge alla samma chans att få en plats öppnar vi för anmälan kl 09:00, måndag 2 september.

Så här beskriver Carsten vad seminariet (och boken) handlar om: 

There is a lot of talk about safety culture, either as a way to improve safety and safety performance, or as an explanation for bad events when they happen. Despite the fact that the term safety culture is widely used, it raises many questions. What do we mean when we use it? What does it mean at all? How is it understood? Are there different ways to interpret it? Is it actually useful to speak about safety culture, or should we perhaps speak about something else?

The masterclass will help us to explore these – and some other – questions. Together, we will look at some of the literature, some applications, reflect on the subjects and discuss them. And, of course, we will find out what this “First Rule” might be.

Carsten Busch

has studied Mechanical Engineering, Safety, and Human Factors. He has over 30 years of experience in Safety and Quality Management at various levels in organisations ranging from railway to oil & gas to police in The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Norway. He is professionally active on various forums, regular speaker at conferences, owner of mindtherisk.com, tutor at the Lund University Human Factors and System Safety program, and author of several professional books: Safety Myth 101, Veiligheidsfabels 1–2–3, If You Can’t Measure It… Maybe You Shouldn’t, Preventing Industrial Accidents, The First Rule of Safety Culture, Risicoflectie, and The Heinrich Project III: The Travelers Papers. His main research interests include the history of knowledge development and discourse in safety. His MSc thesis, critically discussing new views in safety against the work of safety pioneer H.W. Heinrich was elected as best safety thesis in Sweden of 2019. He is an active members of the Dutch society of safety science (NVVK), a member of the editorial board of the society’s quarterly magazine NVVK Info and acts a reviewer for Safety Science and the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. Currently, he is doing his PhD through Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, researching the adoption of safety concepts.