ABSTRACT
As Karl Weick has stated, abductive thinking is crucial to making sense of the unexpected. Understanding the role of abductive thinking has relevance for many sides of safety work, the reasoning processes can be argues to relate to all sorts of situations. This chapter shows that the way forward in the respect is integrating abduction into the equation, providing a more inclusive understanding of all forms of reasoning and their relationships. It argues the force of proceduralization, including its generic model of logic, needs to be moderated in order to situate the role of abductive thinking within the theories and models of risk, safety and recognized within operational contexts of safety management. The chapter presents the exclusive and intensive use of prescribed rules causing a proceduralization of safety is a threat to safety if it is not sufficiently moderated in relation to the interpretive competence of individual's action under operational uncertainties.
