Risk assessment and management was established as a scientific field some 30–40 years
ago. Principles and methods were developed for how to conceptualise, assess and manage …

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 …

Recently, there has been a discussion in the safety science community concerning the
validity of basic approaches to safety, referred to as Safety I, Safety II and Safety III, with Erik …

Ship collisions are rare occurrences with a potential to cause significant human, monetary
and/or environmental loss. One element in preventing collision accidents is the presence of …

Increased focus on protection from terrorism, espionage, cybersecurity and other malicious
crimes has led to increased academic interest in the topic of security, especially in risk and …

Safety Culture has now been for almost three decades a highly promoted, advocated and
debated but contentious notion. This article argues first that one needs to differentiate …

Abstract High Reliability Organisation (HRO) and Resilience Engineering (RE) are two
research traditions which have attracted a wide and diverse readership in the past decade …

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 management systems (SMSs) are widely applied across many industrial sectors, and
a large body of literature has been published addressing their design, implementation …

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 …