1. Re-inventing Safety and Security – A Symposium of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Safety and Security, 23 January 2017

2. Presentation outline Who am I?
Observation: an evolving society with respect to safety and security
Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
Re-inventing safety and security
Conclusion

3. Presentation outline Who am I?
Observation: an evolving society with respect to safety and security
Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
Re-inventing safety and security
Conclusion

4. Who am I? Prof. dr. ir. Genserik Reniers Scientific Director of the
LDE Centre for Safety and Security
• MSc. in Chemical engineering
• Ph.D. in Applied Economic Sciences
• Full professor at TUDelft & UAntwerpen (Chair on Safety of hazardous materials)

5. Presentation outline Who am I?
Observation: an evolving society with respect to safety and security
Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
Re-inventing safety and security
Conclusion

6. Observation: an evolving society with respect to Safety and Security – some difficult “how to” questions that need answers within contemporary society – Challenges:
How safe is safe enough?
How secure is secure enough?
How to define risk acceptability criteria?
How to include economic assessments?
How to deal with horror scenarios?
How to include moral aspects in risk assessments?
How to increase transparency?
How to use dynamic risk assessment techniques in industrial practice?
How to advance academic knowledge regarding security?
How to integrate physical security and cyber security?
How to make safety and security part of academic education?

7. Presentation outline Who am I?
Observation: an evolving society with respect to safety and security
Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
Re-inventing safety and security
Conclusion

8. Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
5 Themes of interest:
- Industrial safety and security science
- Cyber security science
Nature-related safety and security science
Counter-terrorism security science
Health-care related safety and security science
Via ‘RISK’:
Respect and Result
Innovation
Solid and strong collaboration
Knowledge and know-how
Via three domains:
Objective-observable domain
Human intelligence domain
Perceptual domain
 Transdisciplinary solutions

9. Presentation outline Who am I?
Observation: an evolving society with respect to safety and security
Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
Re-inventing safety and security
Conclusion

10. Re-inventing safety and security – Two “Safety Revolutions” thus far

11. A Third Safety Revolution is needed
“Business as usual” regarding dealing with safety and safety improvements since the second safety revolution (1960’s onwards)
However: further observations:
Adaptation to the needs of current society and societal expectations (e.g. transparency, moral aspects and ethics)
Changing world: new challenges (a.o. Security, social media, and big data)
Still too many incidents and accidents – industry can really be more excellent
Cooperation: companies are still too much “safety-islands” instead of “safety clusters”
Too many of the ‘old recipes’ are being used and re-used in safety!
Current thinking, mental models, technological approaches and
solutions, safety implementations and ways to improve safety DO
NOT SUFFICE to answer these questions and to revolutionize safety
and make it much, much safer in a realistic way!

12. A Third Safety Revolution: The ‘CHESS’ Paradigm An example: Industrial safety and security
Members from the Triple Helix (Industry, Authorities and Research institutes) truly wanting to advance the Dutch industry needs to play ‘CHESS’: Put focus on / advance the following:
Cooperation and Clustering
High transparency and efficient inspections
Education, learning and training
Security development and integration
Safety innovation and dynamic risk assessment

13. Presentation outline Who am I?
Observation: an evolving society with respect to safety and security
Approach of the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
Re-inventing safety and security
Conclusion

14. Conclusion
The LDE Centre for Safety and Security becomes a national and international centre of excellence within Europe
If questions regarding safety and security arise in media, by policy-makers, or by researchers of all kind, the point of single contact is the LDE Centre for Safety and Security
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts”
(Aristotle, 4th Century B.C.)

15.  g.l.l.m.e.reniers@tudelft.nl
Thank you for your attention! 