We can work on applying the principles of Safety II to our work,
and improve safety by looking at the different challenges
that go right many times.
Safety II is based on resilience.
This term means to be able to recover from
or adjust to a change or change unwanted situations.
It can be applied to common situations,
and see how people adjust their performance to changing conditions.
We base our resilient performance on four different qualities or fields.
The first one is response.
In terms of Safety I, response to a situation
is whenever an event scales its risk.
As workers, we should be concerned about responding to events
that happen in our everyday job.
And be ready to answer questions such as:
Is there a response ready for an activity?
Or, when to initiate that response?
What do I need to respond to this everyday challenge?
It's also important to monitor and to pay attention to indicators,
and to be aware if sometimes the indicators are not well monitored,
if there are delays between different measurements,
leads, lags and others.
Usually, we monitor things because PSA pays more attention
to some variables than to others.
But when there is any upset situation in the facility,
there can be other indicators that are ready
before the ones we expected to monitor to avoid the accident.
Also, we have to learn that there are other small events
during the everyday activities that go right
than the ones, or the big ones, that go wrong.
We can learn from those many different challenges
in order to improve our anticipate response.
That is the forth quality.
What do the models say before something happens?
We have to anticipate unwanted situations,
by knowing our everyday activities,
and knowing what we will have to do in case of an event to happen.
All those three things or all those things, sorry,
are based on resilience.
And Safety II is also based on resilience.
And we can focus on the three following things to apply
in our everyday activities.
The first one is to focus on frequent things.
As we have said before,
there are more frequent things or events to learn from
than severe things that rarely happen.
This means we tend to focus our attention on things that fail,
rather than on things that happen many times.
and that have gone well many times,
We have to pay attention to those everyday activities.
And when we find that we have to adjust to an activity,
then, we can inform of it
in order to improve the procedures and all the response documents.
Second, we have to look for the work-as-done.
So, there are more common adjustments that you or people around you
have to make. When something has been done before,
probably it will be done again many times.
It's essential to focus on things or on doing things well
again in the future.
And finally, as we said before, learning is easier
when we have more times to do it,
multiple small events have more frequency than the severe accidents.
So, there are small improvements in our common performance.
And it may be more important than the large, big improvements
that as we have said before, happen few times.
And all those things are the things we have to tend to focus on
and to use to improve safety according to our new Safety II approach.