Despite, as I have mentioned before, a lot of enthusiasm for the concept of safety II and the mindset that it brings, there is still relatively little we know about how people can apply it in practice. A study was published in 2025 by Roos and colleagues who described how they applied a Safety II approach to…

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For over a decade, the language and narrative of safety has been trying to embrace the concepts of a ‘new approach’, mainly called Safety I and Safety-II or Safety Differently. It has circulated through healthcare conferences, academic journals, and policy discussions. Influential thinkers such as Erik Hollnagel, Sidney Dekker, Stephen Shorrock and Jeffrey Braithwaite (and…

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