The ethos of safety has always been to reduce unwanted and harmful events or even better, to completely eliminate them. Even though it makes sense to try to stop things from going wrong, this is clearly not enough.

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In recent years momentum has been building around a relatively new idea in patient safety which has come to be called Safety-II. Previously, to produce safe care for patients, the majority of activities involved looking at when things go wrong and attempting to reduce harm.