From Safety to Safely Principles and Practice of Systemic Potentials Management

"Even deeply-read safety scholars will profitably immerse themselves in this latest book from Professor Hollnagel. Not just scholarly readers, too. Everyone - researchers, business people, safety practitioners for example - will learn from engaging in this splendid book."

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Professor and Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia

"After acronyms and atavism, Erik is now resorting to a clever grammatical twist to inspire the reformation instead. He's deploying just one letter substitution. And taking us from noun to adverb. From safety to safely. The shift this heralds, however, is not subtle at all. In fact, it's huge. We've been managing safety for its absence. Which, if you think about it (which Erik has done a lot), is not only illogical but profoundly stupid. "Managing the primary process of a system or a company well is after all what provides the basis for productivity and business, regardless of domain and type of activity," Erik writes. Managing it safely means doing just that, and assuring that you can keep doing it - as long as you learn from what goes well, and why, and then commit to doing ever more of it. Who can disagree with that?"

Professor Sidney Dekker, Griffith University, Australia

"This new book is a profound exploration of the prevailing interpretation of safety, taking us on a captivating journey through the foundations and assumptions underpinning our approach. It's a groundbreaking work which prompts us to reconsider the very essence of safety management."

Professor Dr. Andrew Sharman, Managing Director, RMS Switzerland, Switzerland