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Have you heard of things like Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), Safety Differently, Safety-II, New Safety, the “New View” of Safety, Resilience Engineer, and Human Performance Improvement (HPI) and wondered what they’re all about? Ever wanted to learn more? Even wanted tips from the people who really know? Ever wanted some guidance on how to begin implementing it at your own workplace?
If so, we think you’ll find this guide helpful, insightful, practical, and even a little fun to read (plus don’t forget our 5 Principles of HOP infographic.)
We asked some of the leading experts in the world to help introduce “new safety” to you in this guide (note that we’re using “new safety” simply as a catch-all term to include all the different terms–HOP, Safety Differently, etc.–that we listed above) and we’re very thankful that so many chose to share their experience and knowledge with us (thanks to all the contributors!).
We asked each of the contributors to answer the following questions:
How would you define “new safety?”
What’s the most important thing a safety professional should know about new safety?
How would you recommend a safety professional begin implementing new safety?
What resources do you recommend people check out to learn more about new safety?
The contributors include, in alphabetical order:
Martha Acosta, Nippin Anand, Andrea Baker, Andrew Barrett, Carsten Busch, Eric Buschard, Rosa Antonia Carillo, Tristan Casey, Bob Edwards, Joe Estey, Ron Gantt, Sam Goodman, Tanya Hewitt, Daniel Hummerdal, Adam Johns, Clive Lloyd, Gareth Lock, Jeff Lyth, Charles Major, James McPherson, Michael Phillips, Ivann Pupulidy, Becky Ray, Steven Shorrock, Brent Sutton, Pam Walaski, Sean Walker, Gary Wong, and Marc Yeston (once again, thanks to all of them!).
In addition to this guide, you might also find these related articles and recorded discussions of interest:
Recorded Discussion with Todd Conklin:
Recorded Discussions with Ron Gantt:
- What Is Safety Differently?
- Safety Differently and Safety Training
- Safety Differently and Incident Investigations
- Is Safety Differently Really Any Different than Safety?
- Safety Classics Reconsidered
Recorded Discussions with Carsten Busch:
Recorded Discussion with Bob Edwards:
Recorded Discussion with Andrea Baker:
Recorded Discussion with Helen Harris:
Recorded Discussions with Pam Walaski:
- Risk, Systems Thinking, and Safety Management
- Implementing a Risk-Based Safety Management Approach
- Risk-Based Safety Approaches for Reducing SIFs
Recorded Discussions with Jennifer Serne:
- Bias in Incident Investigations (1st in a series of 4)
- Guarding Against Bias in Incident Investigations (2nd in a series of 4)
- Human Factors; Why Human Decisions Sometimes Lead to Errors (3rd in a series of 4)
- Creating Systems in Which Human Decisions Don’t Lead to Errors (4th in a series of 4)
Recorded Discussion with Adam Johns:
Recorded Discussions with Joe Estey:
- Pre-Task Pre-Mortems
- What Is HPI & How to Implement It
- Developing a Risk-Competent Workforce
- Incident Investigations & Root-Cause Analysis
- What Is an Incident Investigation?
Recorded, On-Demand Discussion with David Provan (David wanted to contribute to this and then got super-busy, so sadly we missed out on him in this round. We DO hope to add additional contributors over time and David’s at the top of our wish list!):
Recorded, On-Demand Webinar with Pam Walaski:
Recorded, On-Demand Webinar with Jennifer Serne
We think you’ll find this guide insightful. Download it now and come back to let us know what you think!

Intro to “New Safety” Guide
What we’re calling “New Safety” here goes by a variety of names–HOP, HPI, Safety Differently, Safety-II, Resilience Engineering, and more. Download the guide to learn more about it from many of the world’s top experts.