Systemic Accidents from a Resilience Engineering Perspective

Resumo

In a historical way safety has been defined by its opposite, since its improvement has been measured by the reduction of safety-related events. In other words, safety has been measured by the ‘lack of safety’. The European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety (2005) gives a good example of this view by stating that industrial safety performance will progress in a steady and measurable way reducing accident-related losses, occupational diseases and environmental incidents.