ABSTRACT
Deconstruction is originally the name of a philosophical movement which promotes a theory of literary criticism or semiotic analysis. It asserts that words can only refer to other words, and that there is no meaning to be found in an actual text. The manifestations of Safety–1 are accidents, incidents, near misses, etc., as illustrated by the different 'levels' of the safety pyramid or by lists proposed by specific safety programmes, such as the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety (ETPIS). Since the phenomenology of Safety–1 refers to the things that go wrong or can go wrong, adverse outcomes as well as adverse events, the aetiology of Safety-1 must perforce be about the ways in which this can happen. When adverse outcomes have been traced back to their underlying causes, it is assumed that the 'components' that are part of the explanations either have functioned correctly or have failed.
