Random Noise: Measuring Your Company’s Safety Performance

Much like privatization, deregulation, and financialization altered the economic landscape, this book unveils how safety management has been affected by the intertwined dynamics of asset underinvestment, privatization, self-regulation, workplace flexibilization, and market-driven policies.

Sidney Dekker is a Professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, where he founded the Safety Science Innovation Lab. He is also Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. Previously, Dekker was Professor at Lund University in Sweden, where he founded the Leonardo da Vinci Laboratory for Complexity and Systems Thinking, and flew as First Officer on Boeing 737s for Sterling and later Cimber Airlines out of Copenhagen. Dekker is a high-profile scholar and is known for his work in the fields of human factors and safety. He is the author of many best-selling titles, such as Just Culture, Safety Differently, The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error, Drift into Failure, The Safety Anarchist and Foundations of Safety Science.

Georgina Poole is a health and safety professional in Brisbane, Australia. She has spent more than fifteen years embedded in operational safety roles across a variety of industries including mining, oil and gas, construction and aviation. Georgina is well known for her podcast ’Leading Safely’ and her passion for human and organisational performance. She recently completed her Graduate Certificate of Safety Leadership at Griffith University, where co-author Sidney Dekker is the Program Director.