Safety II Professionals: The future of our role in organisations

Presented by David Provan and Hosted by myosh HSEQ Software

Summary:
Organisations invest considerable resources in dedicated safety roles, teams and entire safety departments in the pursuit of understanding and managing safety risk. However, 30 years of research concludes that safety practitioners are largely not performing this role effectively in practice. This webinar will explain how we can use emerging theories of Safety II, Resilience Engineering and Safety Differently to transform the purpose, tasks and activities of safety practitioners to help them create foresight about the changing shape of risk, and facilitate action in their organisations before people are harmed.

About David:
Dr. David Provan is the Managing Director of Forge Works safety consultancy, and a part-time research fellow at Griffith University. He has a 20 year career as a Safety Executive across the rail, construction and oil and gas industries. His academic research interests include the operationalisation of Safety II and Resilience Engineering, and what it means for the current and future role of safety professionals within organisations. David is the co-host of ‘the safety of work’ podcast with Dr. Drew Rae which discusses safety science research findings in a practical way, so that organisations can move further towards evidence based safety practice.