New Insights Into

Serious Injury &

Fatality (SIF) Prevention

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Presented by
Ian Pemberton
Chartered Ergonomist, C. ErgHF, MCHIEHF
Managing Director, Human Focus

New Insights into Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention

How Safety Resilience Engineering Provides a New Strategic Approach to SIF Prevention

Many organisations have made huge progress in reducing minor injuries. But despite these advances, Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs)remain stubbornly persistent — and often repeat in strikingly similar ways.

The uncomfortable truth is that SIFs follow different causal pathways. They emerge not from simple errors or unsafe acts, but from the complex interactions of people, processes, and systems.

To prevent them, organisations need to move beyond traditional Safety-I thinking — without discarding its value — and learn how to apply Safety-II and Safety Resilience Engineering in practical, evidence-based ways.

This isn’t just about adopting new tools and frameworks. It’s also about the mindsets and cultural conditions that allow those tools to work — starting with psychological safety.

Without it:

Investigations can’t uncover the deeper, contextual stories behind SIFs.
Frontline teams can’t speak up, challenge assumptions, or learn in the moment.
Organisations can’t build the trust and openness that underpin world-class safety performance.

In this recorded webinar, you’ll learn how both the technical systems and the human systems of resilience combine to make SIF prevention truly effective.

Are You Facing These Challenges?

Your safety metrics look good — yet serious or high-potential events still occur.
Investigations often identify the same themes, without revealing the real system dynamics.
You’ve heard of Safety-II, but find it difficult to make it operational or measurable.
Your current safety systems focus on physical hazards — but overlook cognitive and adaptive risks.
Frontline teams work under pressure, but lack the psychological and interpersonal safety needed to learn, adapt, and support each other in real time.

If these sound familiar, this free recorded webinar is for you.

What You’ll Learn in This Safety Webinar

Human Factors and Safety Resilience specialist Ian Pemberton unpacks a practical, evidence-based approach to preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities — using the four pillars of Safety Resilience as a guide.

1. Learning from the Past

Why traditional investigations are still dominated by Safety-I logic — and how a Safety-II/Resilience Engineering approach reveals deeper causal pathways for SIFs.
You’ll see how new investigation methods can uncover the complex adaptive dynamics behind serious events — but only when teams operate within a climate of psychological safety that allows people to tell the full story.

2. Learning in the Moment of Doing

How to strengthen frontline adaptive capacity — giving teams the tools and mindset to work safely under pressure.
You’ll learn how human performance tools, non-technical safety skills (NoTSS), and crew resource management (CRM) approaches help work teams manage variability safely.
The webinar explores how psychological safety among peers is critical for these techniques to succeed — enabling open communication, challenge, and mutual support during high-risk work.

3. Looking to the Near Future

Why common reporting systems, near-miss databases, and observation programs rarely detect SIF precursors.
You’ll discover how to redesign these systems to identify weak signals and threats — using a Safety-II lens to spot emerging drift toward danger rather than counting minor deviations.

4. Looking Further Ahead

Why many organisations struggle to pinpoint their truly high-risk tasks — and how to integrate cognitive risk mapping alongside traditional physical risk assessments.
You’ll learn how to uncover where expertise is doing the “invisible work” that keeps systems safe, and how to cultivate mindsets that enable intelligent anticipation, not just reaction.

Why Attend This Webinar?

This recorded session will help you move beyond compliance-driven safety toward a learning-oriented, adaptive, and psychologically safe system — one that prevents SIFs by understanding how real work succeeds, not just how it fails.

You’ll leave with:

A clear framework for applying Safety Resilience to SIF prevention.
Insights into the mindsets and cultural conditions that make safety systems work.
Practical examples of how to operationalise Safety-II and Resilience Engineering principles.
Tools and reflection questions you can immediately use to refocus your SIF prevention strategy.

Presented by: Ian Pemberton

Chartered Ergonomist, Human Factors Specialist, and leading authority on workplace safety performance and system design.

With over 25 years of experience, Ian has helped organisations across industries rethink how safety is supported — designing systems that align with real work and strengthen decision-making where it matters most.

Drawing on Cognitive Systems Engineering and Resilience Engineering, Ian brings practical, evidence-based insights into how organisations can prevent SIFs by building systems that are both robust and adaptive — underpinned by the psychological safety required for open learning and resilient performance.