They encourage organisations to declutter their bureaucracy and enhance the capacities in people and processes that make things go well—and to offer compassion, restoration and learning when they don’t.
It sees safety not as the absence of negative events but as the presence of positive capacities in people, teams and processes that make things go well.
Restorative Just Culture was developed by Sidney Dekker in 2014, with its first large-scale implementation at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, UK.
The concept builds upon theoretical foundations in resilience engineering and complexity theory, while offering practical applications for organizational leadership.
Part of the group of founding scientists behind 'Resilience Engineering,' Sidney Dekker's work has inspired the birth of HOP (Human and Organizational Performance), New View Safety, Learning Teams, and more.