person-centered and systems-centered approaches to managing safety
- safety as the emergent product of a complex socio-technical systems
Book review on systemantics
- elementary systems principles:
  1. A complex system cannot be “made” to work. It either works or it doesn’t.
  2. A simple system, designed from scratch, sometimes works.
  3. Some complex systems actually work.
  4. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
  5. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

books

Thinking in Systems (A Primer) Written by Donella Meadows and edited by Diana Wright

Thinkers