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This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and
organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and
clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging
problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of
water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions,
healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we
might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore
translational systems approaches toward resilient management and
policy for sustainability. In Unsafety, the author focuses on the
kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that
arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an
example, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with
the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link
between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and
human-made disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through loss
of life; destruction of livelihoods as in agriculture, fisheries,
and the manufacturing industry; and interruption of urban life.
Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty
elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations for individuals,
organizations, regions, and the state. The author explains that one
factor in the Fukushima catastrophe, which followed in the wake of
the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was the latent deterioration
and aging of systems at all levels from the physical to the social,
leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen
consequences. Here, the aging of the nuclear reactor system, the
breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from
the regulatory authorities combined to create the three-fold
disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental
dysfunction have been diagnosed as reflecting a "systems pathology"
infecting all levels.
This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and
organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and
clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging
problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of
water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions,
healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we
might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore
translational systems approaches toward resilient management and
policy for sustainability. In Unsafety, the author focuses on the
kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that
arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an
example, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with
the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link
between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and
human-made disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through loss
of life; destruction of livelihoods as in agriculture, fisheries,
and the manufacturing industry; and interruption of urban life.
Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty
elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations for individuals,
organizations, regions, and the state. The author explains that one
factor in the Fukushima catastrophe, which followed in the wake of
the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was the latent deterioration
and aging of systems at all levels from the physical to the social,
leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen
consequences. Here, the aging of the nuclear reactor system, the
breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from
the regulatory authorities combined to create the three-fold
disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental
dysfunction have been diagnosed as reflecting a "systems pathology"
infecting all levels.
This book utilizes big data to undertake a cluster analysis of
medical accidents. Highlighting shared worldwide accident patterns,
it represents a first step toward reducing the incidence of
accidents through kaizen innovation driven by information and
communications technology. This initiative comes against a
background where medical accidents are currently the third largest
cause of death after heart attack and cancer, making accident
prevention an urgent concern. With the objective of preventing
these accidents, which negatively impact numerous different
stakeholders, and based on interdisciplinary research, the book
examines (1) the application of data mining to identify shared
accident patterns; (2) proposals for system improvement and
organizational innovation aimed at risk and resilience in crisis
management; and (3) the use of a global platform to achieve
sustainability in the Internet of Medicine (IoM).
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