Understanding Safety Science: Bridging the Gap Between Research & Practice

Safety science has evolved significantly over the past few decades. Ideas from Human and Organisational Performance, Safety Differently, Safety-II, Resilience Engineering, systems thinking, and organisational learning have challenged many of the assumptions that have shaped traditional safety management. Yet for many organisations, there remains a gap between what the research tells us and what happens in practice.

This webinar is designed to help bridge that gap.

Rather than treating safety science as abstract theory, we will explore what it means for real organisational life: how leaders make decisions, how work is actually completed, how risk is managed under pressure, how people adapt to changing conditions, and how organisations can learn more effectively from everyday work and unwanted events.

The session will examine why traditional approaches often over-focus on human error, compliance gaps, and procedural deviation, while under-exploring the conditions that shape decisions and outcomes. We will look at how contemporary…