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Safety Theater shows how our desire for perfection drives compliance clutter, inauthentic relationships with work-as-done, and new kinds of accidents. This hopeful, forward-looking book is the final instalment of a three-part series on the effects of 'neoliberalism,' which promotes the role of the private sector in the economy.
List of contents
Preface: Have we thought about this, or is it policy? Chapter 1: A perfectible world Chapter 2: Outlawing suffering: Perfecting the world of work Chapter 3: Meeting the target, missing the point Chapter 4: Now playing: Safety Theater Chapter 5: After high reliability Chapter 6: The challenges of complexity Chapter 7: Past the edge of chaos Chapter 8: Neoliberal accidents Chapter 9: Continental and analytical thinking about organizations Chapter 10: Pathways to authenticity Chapter 11: Escaping from Safety Theater
About the author
Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is Professor in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science, and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Sidney has lived and worked in seven countries across four continents. He coined the terms "safety differently" and "restorative just culture" in the 2010s. An avid piano player and pilot, he has been flying the Boeing 737 for an airline on the side. He is a trained mediator and chaplain. Sidney is prolific and bestselling author, with his most recent works including:
Ten Virtues of a Positive Safety Culture;
Random Noise;
Stop Blaming;
Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist;
The End of Heaven;
Just Culture;
Safety Differently;
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error';
Second Victim;
Drift into Failure;
Patient Safety;
Compliance Capitalism; and
Do Safety Differently. He has co-directed the documentaries
Safety Differently (2017),
Just Culture (2018),
The Complexity of Failure (2018), and
Doing Safety Differently (2019). Stanford has ranked Sidney among the world's top 1% most influential scientists since Newton. Read more at sidneydekker.com.
