Safety professionals have been working within organizations since the early 1900s. During
the past 25 years, societal pressure and political intervention concerning the management of …

With the introduction of Industry 4.0, occupational health and safety finds itself confronted
with new types of hazards. Many Industry 4.0 innovations involve increased machine …

This reflection piece explores societal resilience as an emerging field in safety science
research. Based on the growing interest for safety in a societal context–and the natural …

Envisioning humans and (smart) robots collaboratively working on the manufacturing shop
floor, sharing spaces, tasks and objectives, reflects the ambitious goal that the ideal factory …

After more than half a century of development, the safety discipline has accumulated many
theories, methods, models, and principles, but these results are still relatively scattered in …

Modern safety science owes much of its current theories and practical approaches to the
critical analysis of socio-technological disasters in the nuclear, chemical, maritime, and …

Traditionally, the twin topics of safety and security have been addressed as discrete and
separate entities at government, corporate and professional levels. This conceptual …

Safety science can be viewed as a messy field, although it has developed many different
types of accident models (or theories and metaphors) and methodologies of analysis in …

This special issue focuses on the foundations of safety science. Topics discussed are:
scientific diversity and fragmentation within safety science; beyond diversity, some …

Systemic thinking is proposed to be applied within safety management. In the article I
discuss benefits and content of systemic thinking in connection to safety. Systemic thinking …