Missing links: Understanding blindness to safety risks - Outcomes from the interactive session of the ESReDA Athens seminar

This executive summary is an output from the interactive session organised by the ESReDA project group on Risk, Knowledge and Management at the ESReDA seminar held in Athens in November 2024. The seminar included a poster session with four posters, each with a claim concerning organisational blindness to safety risks. As part of the seminar, the audience was divided into four groups, and each group was asked to spend 20 minutes with a poster, then move on to the next one. At the poster, the audience was given a short presentation of the claim on the poster, and the background to it, and asked about their thoughts concerning the claim. The objective of this summary is to thank the audience for their participation, and to give all participants a reminder of what the posters claimed, feedback on what was discussed in the interactive sessions, and information on what conclusions were then made. This executive summary does not claim to be the truth, but instead we hope it rouses thoughts and ideas on potential ways to reduce organisational blindness, better identify safety problems and ensure that the decisions required to reduce risks are not buried by the myriad of other pressures that affect every organisation.