Journal Articles
Browse the published articles of Safety.Science, including research papers, editorials, technical notes, and practice-oriented contributions.
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When One Life Becomes Humanity — Moral Amplification, Responsibility, and the Conditions of Freedom
Executive Summary Modern societies are built on a fragile but fundamental condition: people must be able to live together without fearing harm from one another. This condition precedes law, governance, ideology, and technology, and constitutes the minimal requirement for any group of humans to form a society rather than disperse into isolated individuals. This paper
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Safety When Systems Fracture — An editorial reflection on interaction breakdown, escalation, and responsibility
In moments of widespread tension and suffering, the language of safety is often reduced to numbers, incidents, or blame. Yet safety failures rarely originate in isolated actions. They emerge when human pressures, institutional structures, and contextual conditions interact in ways that no longer allow correction or care. This editorial offers a reflection on safety not
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Pre-Failure Signal Distortion as a Barrier to Integration in Socio-Technical Systems
This paper proposes a conceptual framework of pre-failure signal distortion mechanisms in socio-technical systems. Distinguishing between human, cultural, and systemic processes, we focus on five core mechanisms: silence, normalisation, fragmentation, metric substitution, and procedural shielding. Rather than removing information, these mechanisms undermine safety by weakening the system’s capacity for integration—the ability to hold human experience,…
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Safety Standards Education
The study focuses on the Dutch National Norm NEN-NTA 8287:2021, which adopts a safety-by-design perspective and explicitly emphasises system integration across the lifecycle. We describe an AI-assisted educational approach in which large language models are used to support interpretation of standard requirements, exploration of relationships between safety domains, and reflection on integration challenges. Rather than…
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Launching Safety.Science: An Invitation to the Integrated Safety Community
This editorial introduces Safety.Science as an independent, open-access pilot journal of Integrated Safety (Integraal Veiligheid). The journal aims to provide a modest but reliable meeting place where insights from universities, applied universities, safety regions, industry, government and other partners can be shared in accessible formats.