ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to redress the balance by presenting two models that highlight different aspects of the positive and more hidden face of safety. It shows how the three principal cultural drivers – commitment, cognisance and competence – map on to the four ‘Ps’ of management – principles, policies, procedures and practices – to provide a broad description of what a resilient and safe organisation might look like. Safety has a negative and a positive aspect, though it is mainly the former that claims attention. The main purpose of the ‘safety space’ model is to elucidate what exactly is meant by the positive face of safety. The Safety Space Model presents the notion of a ‘safety space’ within which comparable organisations can be distributed according to their relative vulnerability or resistance to the dangers that beset their particular activities. They are also free to move to and fro within this space.
