Speaker Sidney Dekker

Sidney Dekker

Sidney Dekker is Professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Previously Professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Director of the Leonardo Da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking, he gained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA in 1996. He has worked in New Zealand, the Netherlands, and England, he has been Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and visiting Professor in healthcare safety in Melbourne, Australia and Manitoba, Canada. Sidney Dekker is the author of several books with his most recent being Safety Differently from 2014.
- Thursday 03 May 2018
  16:05 - 16:50 Safety differently
  ‘Safety differently’ is about relying on people’s expertise, insights and the dignity of work as actually done to improve safety and efficiency. It is about halting or pushing back on the ever-expanding bureaucratization and compliance of work. The cost of compliance and bureaucracy can be mind-boggling—up to 10% of GDP, with every person working some 8 weeks per year just to cover the cost of compliance, paperwork and bureaucratic accountability demands. This is non-productive time. It has also stopped progressing safety. Over the last two decades, safety improvements have flatlined (as measured in fatalities and serious injury rates, for instance) despite a vast expansion of compliance and bureaucracy.
  
  16:50 - 17:05 Talk with Sidney Dekker and Monica Haage
  Sidney Dekker, professor and author of several books on safety performance, and Monica Haage, Nuclear Safety Specialist will discuss how safe operations requires people that act safe and systems that support the humans' actions.