{"product_id":"safety-theater-how-the-desire-for-perfection-drives-compliance-clutter-inauthenticity-and-accidents-paperback","title":"Safety Theater: How the Desire for Perfection Drives Compliance Clutter, Inauthenticity, and Accidents - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSidney Dekker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite? \u003ci\u003eSafety Theater\u003c\/i\u003e shows how our desire for perfection drives compliance clutter, inauthentic relationships with work-as-done, and new kinds of accidents. Written by the leading global voice on safety innovation today, \u003ci\u003eSafety Theater\u003c\/i\u003e takes us back to the Enlightenment and its aspiration toward a perfectible world through rationality and science, and explains how, by separating severity from injury rates two centuries later, we now hit our targets but miss the point. This hopeful, forward-looking book is the final volume in a three-part series on the effects of \"neoliberalism,\" which promotes the role of the private sector in the economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowcasing a more caring kind of capitalism--where free markets are free in a frame; where horizontal coordination replaces hierarchical control; where shareholders are not the only stakeholders; and where value and prosperity are assessed in terms other than merely economic ones--the book platforms much of what is now known as \"safety differently,\" and also allows us to think differently about our capacity to manage complexity (including its possible drift toward failure) and see our fellow human beings as resources for solutions, not as problems to control. \u003ci\u003eSafety Theater\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the socio-economic success and value system that distinguish Rhineland economies from Anglo ones. It explains how complexity can never be governed through hierarchy and compliance, but necessarily requires trust and horizontal coordination; offers a vision of humanity richer than Anglo-style capitalism can offer; and examines how Rhineland thinking values tripartite consultation (between workers, employers, and government) in ways that can help stem the worst effects of free market policymaking on the compliance clutter and drift into failure, as detailed in the previous two volumes in this trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidney Dekker's work--from his debut \u003ci\u003eField Guide to Understanding Human Error\u003c\/i\u003e in 2001 to his recent \u003cem\u003eRandom Noise\u003c\/em\u003e--always challenges readers to embrace more humane, empowering ways to think about work and its quality and safety. In \u003ci\u003eSafety Theater\u003c\/i\u003e, Dekker extends his reach once again, writing for all managers, board members, organization leaders, consultants, practitioners, researchers, lecturers, students, and investigators curious to understand the genuine nature of organizational and safety performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSidney Dekker\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is Professor in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science, and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Sidney has lived and worked in seven countries across four continents. He coined the terms \"safety differently\" and \"restorative just culture\" in the 2010s. An avid piano player and pilot, he has been flying the Boeing 737 for an airline on the side. He is a trained mediator and chaplain. Sidney is a prolific and bestselling author, with his most recent works including: \u003ci\u003eTen Virtues of a Positive Safety Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRandom Noise\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStop Blaming\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe End of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJust Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSafety Differently\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSecond Victim\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDrift into Failure\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePatient Safety\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCompliance Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDo Safety Differently\u003c\/i\u003e. He has co-directed the documentaries \u003cem\u003eSafety Differently\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eJust Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), \u003cem\u003eThe Complexity of Failure\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), and \u003cem\u003eDoing Safety Differently\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). Stanford has ranked Sidney among the world's top 1% most influential scientists since Newton. Read more at sidneydekker.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43323708866695,"sku":"9781032012476","price":84.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/YGVZLwiwU79781032012476.webp?v=1760586613","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/safety-theater-how-the-desire-for-perfection-drives-compliance-clutter-inauthenticity-and-accidents-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}