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Special Issue: Learning from Incidents
Call for papers: Special issue of Safety Science on Learning from Incidents

Guest Editors
Professor Neville Stanton
University of Southampton
n.stanton@soton.ac.uk

Dr Anoush Margaryan
Glasgow Caledonian University
anoush.margaryan@gcu.ac.uk

Professor Allison Littlejohn
Open University
Allison.littlejohn@open.ac.uk

Learning from Incidents

The ability to learn from incidents it essential for safety in all organisations, industries, regulatory bodies and policy makers. Safety Science has a long history of innovations in theory, methodology, science and application. For example, accident causation models that first emerged in the early 1900s have since evolved to consider entire systems and emergent properties (e.g. Heinrich, 1931; Leveson, 2004; Perrow, 1984; Rasmussen, 1997; Reason, 1990). Similarly, methodologies have moved from focussing on tasks (Taylor, 1911) to entire systems and the constraints shaping behaviour (e.g. Vicente, 1999). However Learning from Incidents is yet to embrace theories and methods from the learning sciences. A new repertoire of theories, methods and instruments evolved from interdisciplinary perspectives is needed to Learn from Incidents effectively.

The aim of this special issue is to provide researchers and practitioners with an opportunity to present and discuss contemporary, forecasted, and required paradigm shifts to Learn from Incidents. We welcome submissions from all disciplines, including, but not restricted to: Adult and Organisational Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, Sociology, Industrial Psychology, Human Factors Engineering.

Manuscripts from any domain are welcomed on:

Reviews of state of the art of LfI
Whole of systems approaches to LfI
New methodologies for researching LfI
New instruments for measuring LfI
Inter-disciplinary insights into LfI
Case studies involving new concepts to LfI
Commentaries on LfI and the future for the Safety Science discipline
Reports on intervention studies into improving LfI
Approaches to facilitating and enhancing interactions between researchers, practitioners and policymakers in LfI 
Timeline

1st September 2015, Call for papers issued
1st February 2016, Submission deadline for receipt of papers
1st May 2016, Authors receive reviewers’ comments
1st August 2016, Revised manuscripts submitted
1st November 2016, Authors receive reviewers’ comments on revised manuscripts
1st December 2016, Authors receive decision on manuscripts
1st February 2017, Editorial and order of manuscripts passed onto journal administrator
Mid 2017, Special issue published
Instructions for authors

The deadline for receipt of papers is 1st February 2016, with a projected publication date of mid 2017.  All papers will be subjected to the standard peer-review procedures of the journal. Potential authors are requested to submit their paper for consideration to Professor Neville Stanton (n.stanton@soton.ac.uk), Dr Anoush Margaryan (anoush.margaryan@gcu.ac.uk), Professor Allison Littlejohn (Allison.littlejohn@open.ac.uk) prior to electronic submission so that the Guest Editors can ensure its scope and quality is suitable for the special issue.

Following approval, papers should be submitted online via the Elsevier Safety Science manuscript submission site (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/safety-science/). When specifying ‘Article Type’ authors should select ‘SI: Learning from Incidents”. Failure to do so will cause the papers to go unrecognised as belonging to the special issue.

Guidelines for authors can also be found on the Safety Science website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/safety-science/