Living with the New Safety Landscape II

This open access brief-in-two-volumes provides a global overview of the many ways in which today's safety management and governance of high-risk industries may be destabilized in an evolving and rapidly transforming world. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional perimeter of safety management and governance, it considers industrial safety within a wider societal, technological, (geo)political, economic and environmental context to explore future challenges in the coupling of safety and its ecosystem and how to live with them.

The first volume analyzes the current situation as well as the destabilizations now underway and predicted to come in the future and suggests new frames of reference for this changing world. This second volume covers the associated organizational challenges before providing illustrations of ways forward in safety management and governance implemented in healthcare, aviation and oil and gas with respect to AI introduction, and road safety.

In considering the complexity and uncertainty of the topic, the two volumes together rely on the principle of requisite variety to provide contrasting and complementary views by gathering insights on the future of safety from many international academics.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Discusses the way forward for safety at organizational industrial and societal scales Provides examples and case studies which show how the effects of rapid and wide-ranging change can be ameliorated Covers social, professional, and cultural responses to changing safety environments

Inhalt

Part I: Organizations and Safety Challenges.- Lost in Representation: How Social Interaction Contributes to Safety.- Living Safely with an Evolving Operational Environment.- The Power of the Informal and Unspoken in Safety Practice.- Safety and Culture in an Organizational Context.- Suffocation by Management Systems: Why Deregulatory Chain-sawing Will Fail to Reduce Administrative Burdens.- How Can We Make AI Understand Safety?.- Supporting Excellence in Professional Practice in a Changing Industrial Landscape.- Part II Learning from Cases and Examples.- Healthcare in Crisis: Prospects and Directions.- Lost in Sustainability? What Happens to Road Safety when Integrated in the Broader Sustainability Agenda?.- Artificial Intelligence in the Skies: Reconciling European Regulation and Liability in Aviation.- AI and Offshore Safety Management.- Regimes of Fractured Objectivity: Beyond the Envelope of Technology Safety Governance.