April 2026 · Safety Science

From Safety-I Myths to the Improbable Normal

A new Safety Science paper reflects on Hollnagel's legacy, examining how Safety-I myths persist in practice and what 'the improbable normal' means for everyday safety work.

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January 2026 · Books & Ideas

From Safety to Safely: Managing Systemic Potentials

Erik Hollnagel's latest book reframes safety not as a noun to defend but as an adverb — safely — linking productivity and protection through Systemic Potentials Management.

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March 2025 · Safety Culture

From Decremental to Incremental Safety Culture

A practical note on replacing decremental safety culture — focused on reducing failures — with an incremental culture built on the four systemic potentials of resilient performance.

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March 2021 · Research

Safer Systems: People Training or System Tuning?

When systems fail, the default response is more training. Hollnagel asks whether tuning the system itself — not just the people in it — is the more effective path to safer performance.

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August 2020 · Healthcare

Measuring Resilience Potential in Emergency Departments

Researchers develop a Resilience Assessment Grid for emergency departments, operationalising Hollnagel's four potentials — respond, monitor, learn, anticipate — for clinical settings.

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