visualising safety, an exploration: drawings, pictures, images, videos and movies

This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters.

Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impacting the organisational design of safety mechanisms, including the Heinreich ’safety pyramid’ and Reason’s ’Swiss Cheese’. It analyses these models, as well as other forms of visualization, presenting viewpoints from academics and practitioners in the fields of safety science, history, ethnography and interface design.

Dr Teemu Reiman gained his Masters degree and PhD from the University of Helsinki in 2000 and 2007 respectively. He has worked in several research positions, including as Senior Scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He currently works as Safety Culture Manager and Fennovoima Oy, and Safety Culture Consultant at Lilikoi Consulting, as well as being an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, with 20 peer reviewed scientific journal articles.

Dr Jean-Christophe Le Coze is the Head of Research at INERIS (National Institute for Environmental Safety, France) specialising in sociotechnical safety. He has editred and authored three books, and numerous articles on safety science. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Safety Science, and has been a Guest Editor for two special issues.