Sometimes the most important ideas take a long time to sink in. Two books that have helped to reshape ideas about occupational safety, published by the same academic press in 2014 and 2012, are Sidney Dekker’s The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ and Todd Conklin’s Pre-Accident Investigations.
Those books and others by the authors essentially became wellsprings of increasingly popular safety thinking that is refreshing, although sometimes unsettling, and which count industry companies such as power sector giant Quanta Services as adherents.