Safety is often treated as a response, something that activates when things go wrong.
But prevention starts much earlier, in how systems are designed and how people interact with them every day.
From individual protection to organizational decisions, every layer shapes how people actually act under pressure. And the gap isn’t usually the absence of systems it’s whether they are accessible, intuitive, and trusted enough to be used.
When they aren’t, hesitation replaces action.
The Hierarchy of Risk Prevention looks at how these layers come together and whether they truly work in practice.
