Safety Theater

Sidney Dekker (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: Ten Virtues of a Positive Safety Culture; Random Noise; Stop Blaming; Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; Patient Safety; Compliance Capitalism; and Do Safety Differently. He has co-directed the documentaries Safety Differently (2017), Just Culture (2018), The Complexity of Failure (2018), and Doing Safety Differently (2019). Stanford has ranked Sidney among the world’s top 1% most influential scientists since Newton.