The human, the technical system, and the environment are the three elements for safety or three axes for the safety coordinate system. They have three mutual interactions. These form the six fundamental aspects for safety assessment system, represented by the Safety Cube. The Safety Cube is a theory, a method, and a game-changer for engineering safer products and systems.

Seeing the Whole begins from a condition that is historically new: human actions now scale beyond intuition. Technologies operate globally, consequences propagate across time and space, and decisions made locally can generate distant and irreversible effects.

In such a world, the way we see matters before anything else.

This book does not offer tools, solutions, or prescriptions. Instead, it asks a more fundamental question: how must we orient ourselves if we are to act responsibly within int...