The Safety Anarchist Quotes

“No matter how significant the numbers are according to their own logic, statistics fail to convey the true, lived meaning of the suffering they contain and can thus leave us numbly indifferent.”
― Sidney Dekker, The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance

“Tomorrow’s accident, which will be rare but no doubt even more disastrous, will be an accident where the regulations were in place to prevent the problem, or perhaps where no-one actually made an identifiable error and no system truly broke down but all the components had been weakened by erosion: the degree of variation within the operating conditions will one day prove enough to exceed the tolerable linkage thresholds.”
― Sidney Dekker, The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance

“In shipping, for example, injury counts were halved over a recent decade, but the number of shipping accidents tripled”
― Sidney Dekker, The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance