# Sabine Fürst – Safety Fürst

> Sabine Fürst helps organisations learn from everyday work – human factors, Safety-II, patient and staff safety.

I’m Sabine Fürst. I’m curious about how work really gets done.

As a Human Factors & System Safety specialist, I help organisations learn from everyday work – from what goes well as much as from what goes wrong.

Without judgement or blame, and with plenty of curiosity.

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## My approach

**The plan says one thing. Everyday work often does another – and almost always for good reason.**

The gap between work-as-imagined and work-as-done holds what staff achieve and what organisations can learn.

With the Safety-II approach, we navigate the complexity of your reality together.

## My path

Two safety-critical worlds taught me:

safety emerges in everyday work and in what happens between people, technology and organisation.

- **Flight attendant:** In the cabin, I experienced that safety is the achievement of a whole system, every day.
- **Midwife:** In the complexity of healthcare, I learned what holds teams together under pressure and what pulls them apart.
- **MSc, Human Factors and System Safety:** At Lund University, I found the theory and language for what I had experienced in practice.
- **Safety Fürst:** Today I bring both together: in consulting, training, teaching and research, where safety and organisational development intertwine.

## What I offer

**Speaker, workshops, projects**

### Talks & workshops

Looking for an interactive keynote or a workshop that truly makes a difference? I bring human factors and patient safety to where they matter: your everyday work. Lively, practical and with room for your own experiences.

**Selected talks & workshops**

- **[Held:innen brauchen keine Checkliste](https://youtu.be/_-wmU2PTkwM)** – Keynote & panel, Austrian Patient Safety Platform conference · Talk, Vinzenz Gruppe congress, September 2026
- **[First Stories, Second Stories: A lived experience experiment](https://plattformpatientensicherheit.at/bildung-2026.php#second-victim-2026-impressionen)** – Talk, Second Victim association (Verein Second Victim), May 2026
- **[Speak Up: Vom individuellen Mut zur Führungsaufgabe](https://lnkd.in/p/dDJ5BRCU)** – Keynote, Salzburg State Hospitals (SALK), April 2026
- **[Interprofessionalität in der Geburtshilfe: zwischen Vertrauen und Kontrolle](https://lnkd.in/p/dZD4VJZb)** – Keynote & panel, midwifery congress, April 2026
- **Fehlermanagement im Pflegealltag** – Workshop for senior nursing staff and physicians, Hanusch Hospital, April 2026
- **[Vom Blame Game zum systemischen Lernen – für Sicherheit im Gesundheitswesen](https://www.sozialministerium.gv.at/Themen/Gesundheit/Gesundheitssystem/Gesundheitssystem-und-Qualitaetssicherung/Qualit%C3%A4tssymposium-Gesundheit.html)** – Keynote, Qualitätssymposium Gesundheit (Austrian Ministry of Health), October 2025

### Projects

**From the boardroom to the team. With everyone who upholds safety.**

I support you through every phase, or join wherever you are right now.

#### 1. Analysis

Understanding how work really gets done – and where systems come under pressure.

- Systemic analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Case reviews

#### 2. Strategy

Setting priorities together and shaping a realistic path towards safety and learning.

- Organisational culture & leadership
- Change & organisational development

#### 3. Implementation

Embedding training, learning teams, debriefings and more in everyday work.

- Consulting & training
- System safety & patient safety
- Human factors & CRM
- Just culture & second victim

#### 4. Evaluation

Making impact visible, refining, and feeding what we’ve learned back into the organisation.

- Debriefings
- Organisational learning

## Teaching and engagement

**Knowledge only makes a difference once it’s shared.**

- Talk · Video (in German): [Held:innen brauchen keine Checkliste](https://youtu.be/_-wmU2PTkwM) – On the myth of the hero in medicine

### Where I teach

- FH Joanneum
- FH Salzburg
- TU Wien
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Lund University

### Where I’m involved

- Board member, Austrian Patient Safety Platform
- Team member, Second Victim association (Verein Second Victim)

> “To me, learning isn’t solely the responsibility of individuals – it’s a capability that an organisation develops and sustains.”
>
> — Sabine Fürst, Human Factors & System Safety

## Project partners

**Organisations and teams I work with.** Clinics and partners in Austria and Germany.

- [Krankenhaus Elisabethinen Graz](https://www.elisabethinen.at/)
- [Salzburger Landeskliniken](https://salk.at/)
- [Universitätsklinikum Kassel](https://www.gesundheit-nordhessen.de/klinikum-kassel/)
- [St. Josef Krankenhaus Wien](https://www.sjk-wien.at/)
- [Hanusch-Krankenhaus Wien](https://www.hanusch-krankenhaus.at/)
- [Sim Characters](https://simcharacters.com/)
- [Second Victim Österreich](https://www.secondvictim.at/)

## A coffee – or straight to a project?

Thinking about working together, or have a role in mind that might be a good fit? I look forward to hearing from you – and I reply personally.

- Send an email: [sabine@safetyfuerst.eu](mailto:sabine@safetyfuerst.eu)
- Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabine-f%C3%BCrst/

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