Introduction What does this chapter try to do

From each of fhese many different viewpoints individual behaviour is always crucial to the attainment of safety performance, but the way we have seen it has been different. Sometimes the individual has been seen as the problem, to be eliminated as much as possible from workplaces and the vicinity of dangerous fechnology. Sometimes the individual has been seen as our only guarantee cf safety, to be carefully selected, groomed, consulted and placed centrally in our attention and our culture of safety. As we might expect, there is some truth in all these viewpoints the trick is knowing which view works in which situations. 

This chapter tries to place all of these different views of the role of the individual in safety performance info the broad context of system safety 

It starts off by positioning the individual in the process of development of accidents (section 2.7.2). Then it gives some basic ideas about what behavioural science can and cannot be expected to explain and predict (section 2.7.3). That section also introduces the idea of the individual as a 

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