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2019 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Safety and Security – Their Relation and Transformation
verfasst von : Alfred Nordmann, Annette Ripper
Erschienen in: Information Technology for Peace and Security
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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In this chapter, we offer a historical and philosophical survey on safety and security concepts, their development and their interrelatedness. Securitisation theory, for instance, tells us about how something becomes a matter of security in the first place, and how this involves politics and technology. Recent years have seen a shift towards safety cultures, and this shift places a considerable burden of responsibility on the technical and administrative maintenance of reliability at the human-technology interface. Moreover, the growing dependency on information technology with its pervasive and vulnerable digital infrastructures requires further reflection on the role and responsibility of engineers in safety cultures. Since the technological sphere is expanding steadily with a tendency to absorb the sphere of politics, this reflection has to concern itself with the underlying relationship of technology and politics, safety and security. Put empathically, engineers may be regarded as the new ‘guardians of peace.’