12/01/2026
📌 Poster Highlight - 2025 Victorian SIMposium
This poster from Western Health and the University of Melbourne presents a systematic review exploring how Safety-II principles are being applied in anaesthetic translational simulation. Rather than focusing solely on error prevention, Safety-II emphasises learning from what goes right (the everyday adaptations and strengths that keep patients safe).
Across 24 included studies, the team found that while many simulation activities implicitly enact Safety-II through exploring work-as-done, strengths-based debriefing, and multidisciplinary engagement, few label or report these practices explicitly. The review highlights an opportunity to strengthen future simulation design by capturing successful adaptations, sampling routine work, and pairing Safety-I “find-and-fix” approaches with Safety-II “find-and-fortify” methods.
This work provides a practical, strengths-focused roadmap for integrating Safety-II into anaesthesia simulation to support safer, more resilient systems.
