This can only be achieved by the establishment of a robust reporting culture in which employees are fully engaged in the management of safety. In order to allow management to make defensible and correct safety-based decisions, they need to be presented with appropriate information to determine the risk landscape to which their organisation is exposed. By carefully balancing financial and safety management, managers can confine their operation within the "Safety Space". To much focus on protection can limit the operation to the point of bankruptcy, whereas overstretching limited resources to achieve high levels of production can cause mistakes and errors which may lead to serious incidents. Clearly, management have to conduct a careful balancing act between protection and commercial production as shown in the diagram below (Source: James Reason). Modern safety systems will assess all potential root causes of an incident including a thorough drill upwards through the company to determine if there are other organisational or cultural factors at play.
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