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This case study identifies human factors that ought to be considered when studying industrial accident conditions, focusing on lessons learned from government involvement in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, which occurred on 11 March, 2011 in Japan. Chronological accounts of the accident have focused on the government's emergency response, using official reports and published testimonies. This multi-level analysis examines how the high degree of centralization and isolation among crisis management actors created obstacles that left them unable them to build narrative bridges among themselves. It will argue that in the aftermath of the accident, the successive "explosion" of three narrative bridges -structural, interactional, contextual -prevented them from reacting more effectively to the disaster.

This paper examines the way in which paediatricians manage in the case of neo-natal resuscitation to make the decision to continue or stop the procedures, and this within a context characterised by the lack of reliability on scientific norms. The authors aimed to highlight that which orients the medical decisions in a local context of uncertainty. The data have been extracted from a significantly sized field project (based on observations and interviews) carried out in two neo-natal intensive care service units.