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2013 | Book

The Demand for Safety and Its Paradoxes Read chapter Read first chapter

Navigating Safety

Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs - Theory and Practice

Author: René Amalberti

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Book Series : SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of how to best find these compromises, starting with lessons learnt from natural risk management by individuals, then applying them to the craftsman industry, complex industrial systems (civil aviation, nuclear energy) and public services (like transportation and medicine). It offers a unique, illustrated, easy to read and scientifically based set of original concepts and pragmatic methods to revisit safety management and adopt a successful system vision. As such, and with illustrations coming from many various fields (aviation, fishing, nuclear, oil, medicine), it potentially covers a broad readership.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. The Demand for Safety and Its Paradoxes
Abstract
The world demands ever-increasing safety. That demand, however, varies from one system to another as its life-cycle progresses. The pressure on safety often reaches its maximum at the end of the cycle, which is paradoxically the time when the system more or less reaches its apogee in terms of the level of safety.
René Amalberti
Chapter 2. Human Error at the Centre of the Debate on Safety
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the discovery of the safety model that is used by individuals in order to carry out their work without incidents or accidents. It offers a micro-level perspective on safety. The material here is a summary of a book on the management of high-risk systems published in 1996, with additional insights from the latest work on common forms of bias in error analysis and the importance of the concepts of adequacy, compromise, trade-off and the central role of routines.
René Amalberti
Chapter 3. The Keys to a Successful Systemic Approach to Risk Management
Abstract
It is universally admitted that an approach to safety applied to our complex industries (nuclear, chemical, construction and skilled trades) and services (medicine, banking and finance, public and private transport), can no longer be limited to finding local technical solutions; it absolutely must be systemic and global. How should these concepts be fleshed out? This chapter seeks to answer this question from various different perspectives, using examples taken from many contrasting areas, breaking down bias and prejudice and offering practical keys.
René Amalberti
Chapter 4. Human and Organisational Factors (HOFs): Significantly Growing Challenges
Abstract
Although this book concentrates on the safety of complex systems, it seemed to me that it would be useful to finish with a presentation of the major historical discontinuities and the successive principles that have guided human and organisational factor (HOF) processes in enterprises.
René Amalberti
Chapter 5. Conclusion: The Golden Rules in Relation to Systemic Safety
Abstract
In the complex interplay between opposing forces and their interactions, detailed knowledge of all the challenges facing the system (both safety and commercial challenges) and knowledge of its history, are vital in order to chart a safe course and make reasonable compromises and trade-offs. It is not really possible to make good decisions locally other than based on the criterion of overall trade-offs between these opposing forces; no decision in the area of risk management has any chance of being effective if there is no systemic vision.
René Amalberti
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Navigating Safety
Author
René Amalberti
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Electronic ISBN
978-94-007-6549-8
Print ISBN
978-94-007-6548-1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6549-8