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Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow's classic Normal Accident
published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our
sociological view of safety-critical organisations. The operating
landscape of high-risk systems has indeed profoundly changed in the
past 20 to 30 years but the core sociological models of safety
remain associated with classics of the 1980s and 1990s. This book
examines the conceptual and empirical evolutions of the past two to
three decades to explore their implications for safety management
based on several strands of works in various research traditions in
safety (e.g. cognitive engineering and system safety,
high-reliability organisation, sociology of safety, regulatory
studies) and other interdisciplinary fields (e.g. international
business, globalisation studies, strategy management, ecology). It
offers a new and insightful interpretation to the challenges of
today. It investigates how globalisation has reconfigured the
operating landscape of high-risk systems and emphasises the
importance of thinking safety through a strategic angle. This book
serves as an ideal resource for the safety professionals and safety
researchers from any established disciplines such as sociology,
engineering, psychology, political science or management. Features:
Introduces an original analysis of popular safety writings,
including Normal Accident, by Perrow Identifies the importance of
thinking safety from a sociological angle with the help of key
writers Stresses the need for greater sensitivity to strategy and
"errors from the top" when it comes to the safety of high-risk
systems Explains how globalisation has reconfigured the operating
landscape of high-risk systems Renews our understanding of the
current safety management challenges in an increasingly global risk
picture
Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow's classic Normal Accident
published in 1984 and provides additional insights to our
sociological view of safety-critical organisations. The operating
landscape of high-risk systems has indeed profoundly changed in the
past 20 to 30 years but the core sociological models of safety
remain associated with classics of the 1980s and 1990s. This book
examines the conceptual and empirical evolutions of the past two to
three decades to explore their implications for safety management,
based on several strands of works in various research traditions in
safety (e.g. cognitive engineering and system safety,
high-reliability organisation, sociology of safety, regulatory
studies) and other interdisciplinary fields (e.g. international
business, globalisation studies, strategy management, ecology). It
offers a new and inciteful interpretation to the challenges of
today. It investigates how globalisation has reconfigured the
operating landscape of high-risk systems and emphasises the
importance of thinking safety through a strategic angle. This book
serves as an ideal resource for the safety professionals and safety
researchers from any established disciplines such as sociology,
engineering, psychology, political science or management.
This open access book gathers authors from a wide range of
social-scientific and engineering disciplines to review challenges
from their respective fields that arise from the processes of
social and technological transformation taking place worldwide. The
result is a much-needed collection of knowledge about the
integration of social, organizational and technical challenges that
need to be tackled to uphold safety in the digital age. The
contributors whose work features in this book help their readers to
navigate the massive increase in the capability to generate and use
data in developing algorithms intended for automation of work,
machine learning and next-generation artificial intelligence and
the blockchain technology already in such extensive use in
real-world organizations. This book deals with such issues as: ·
How can high-risk and safety-critical systems be affected by these
developments, in terms of their activities, their organization,
management and regulation? · What are the sociotechnical
challenges of the proliferation of big data, algorithmic influence
and cyber-security challenges in health care, transport, energy
production/distribution and production of goods? Understanding the
ways these systems operate in the rapidly changing digital context
has become a core issue for academic researchers and other experts
in safety science, security and critical-infrastructure protection.
The research presented here offers a lens through which the reader
can grasp the way such systems evolve and the implications for
safety—an increasingly multidisciplinary challenge that this book
does not shrink from addressing.
This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical
models play in safety management. It explains the importance of
visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to
peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters.
Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models
which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and
impacting the organisational design of safety mechanisms, including
the Heinreich ‘safety pyramid’ and Reason’s ‘Swiss
Cheese’. It analyses these models, as well as other forms of
visualization, presenting viewpoints from academics and
practitioners in the fields of safety science, history, ethnography
and interface design. This brief will be of interest to anyone
working in the field of safety management and design, including
researchers, managers and students.
Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions
provides a unique perspective into the latest developments of
safety science by putting together, for the first time, a new
generation of authors with some of the pioneers of the field. Forty
years ago, research traditions were developed, including, among
others, high-reliability organisations, cognitive system
engineering or safety regulations. In a fast-changing world, the
new generation introduces, in this book, new disciplinary insights,
addresses contemporary empirical issues, develops new concepts and
models while remaining critical of safety research practical
ambitions. Their ideas are then reflected and discussed by some of
the pioneers of safety science. Features Allows the reader to
discover how contemporary safety issues are currently framed by a
new generation of researchers, brought together for the first time
Includes an introduction and guide to the development of safety
science over the last four decades Features an extraordinary
collection of expert contributors, including pioneers of safety
research, reflecting the evolution of the discipline and offering
insightful commentary on the current and future state of the field
Serves as an invaluable reference and guide for safety
professionals and students from any established disciplines such as
sociology, engineering, psychology, political science or management
as well as dedicated safety programmes Some figures in the eBook
are in colour
Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions
provides a unique perspective into the latest developments of
safety science by putting together, for the first time, a new
generation of authors with some of the pioneers of the field. Forty
years ago, research traditions were developed, including, among
others, high-reliability organisations, cognitive system
engineering or safety regulations. In a fast-changing world, the
new generation introduces, in this book, new disciplinary insights,
addresses contemporary empirical issues, develops new concepts and
models while remaining critical of safety research practical
ambitions. Their ideas are then reflected and discussed by some of
the pioneers of safety science. Features Allows the reader to
discover how contemporary safety issues are currently framed by a
new generation of researchers, brought together for the first time
Includes an introduction and guide to the development of safety
science over the last four decades Features an extraordinary
collection of expert contributors, including pioneers of safety
research, reflecting the evolution of the discipline and offering
insightful commentary on the current and future state of the field
Serves as an invaluable reference and guide for safety
professionals and students from any established disciplines such as
sociology, engineering, psychology, political science or management
as well as dedicated safety programmes Some figures in the eBook
are in colour
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