Explore our latest thinking on the safety of work. Here you’ll find safety science whitepapers and articles unpacking practical insights designed to challenge assumptions, share evidence and help organisations think differently about safety, risk and work.
Research and insights.
White Papers
The Forge Works blueprint for improving the safety of work.
DownloadThis blueprint shares an evidence-based roadmap for rethinking safety management, guiding better decisions and creating safer, more successful work.
From Visible Safety Leadership to Enabling the Safety of Work
DownloadThis field leadership whitepaper explores the evolution and science of safety leadership programs, with practical guidance on redesign principles and what best practice looks like.
Articles
Safety Clutter
Understand how safety clutter builds through duplicated, generalised and over-specified activities, wasting effort while getting in the way of work.
Safety Work verses the Safety of Work
Explore the difference between safety work and the safety of work, and why organisations often confuse activity with real impact.
Safety II professionals
Explore how Safety-II and resilience engineering can reshape safety practice and support adaptability, foresight and better decisions.
An ethnography of the safety professional’s dilemma
This paper explores the safety professional’s dilemma, showing how safety work often serves organisational needs beyond directly reducing operational risk.
Bureaucracy, influence and beliefs
A literature review exploring the institutional, relational and individual factors that shape safety professional practice, influence and effectiveness.
A manifesto for Reality-based Safety Science
A provocative call for reality-based safety science, urging researchers and practitioners to study real work, test theories and improve practice.
