This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety
management. It explains the importance of visualising safety for teaching concepts
communicating ideas to peers and raising awareness of potential threats through posters.
Visualising Safety an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in
promoting ideas of safety and impacting the organisational design of safety mechanisms
including the Heinreich 'safety pyramid' and Reason's 'Swiss Cheese'. It analyses these models
as well as other forms of visualization presenting viewpoints from academics and practitioners
in the fields of safety science history ethnography and interface design.This brief will be
of interest to anyone working in the field of safety management and design including
researchers managers and students.
