A risk interpretation of sociotechnical safety perspectives

Aven, Terje; Ylönen, Marja

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2018.03.004

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“…Acknowledging complexity and dealing with uncertainties and the potential for surprises, through robustness and resilience-based approaches are key features of the risk governance school. This leads to safety science, and its roots in the ‘sociotechnical perspectives on safety’, which builds on three pillars [10] : i) a holistic view is needed to manage safety, using knowledge and experiential insights from different fields and disciplines (including technology and social sciences); ii) it is not possible to predict with sufficient accuracy and manage with sufficient control the behaviour of complex systems, their vulnerabilities and their response to accidents and disasters; and iii) robustness and resilience, thus, need to be accommodated, in addition to risk analysis.…”

Section: Current Perspectives and Approaches For Assessing And Handlimentioning

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Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats

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Zio

2021

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

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Highlights The work addresses global risks characterized by high stakes and large uncertainties. Experiences from the COVID-19 risk handling are discussed. Alternative perspectives and ‘schools’ for risk handling are reviewed. A set of unifying principles are established for these perspectives. These principles provide a foundation for improved risk science and handling.

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Section: Current Perspectives and Approaches For Assessing And Handlimentioning

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Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats

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2021

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

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“…While design procedures for the built environment nowadays often are riskinformed [37,38], acceptable risk in the built environment at the community level remains undefined, a fact that is becoming increasingly relevant to risk-informed decisions regarding emerging concerns about community resilience [39]. Risks associated with rare extreme events invariably are relative, in the sense that they can be determined only in the context of what is acceptable in other activities, what investment is required to marginally reduce the risk, and what losses might be incurred if the risk were to increase.…”

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Risk-Informed Approaches for Mitigating Impacts of Extreme and Abnormal Events in the Built Environment

Ellingwood

2021

Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering

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Our built environment is essential for community health and welfare. Even with proper design and construction to withstand demands imposed by occupancy, service requirements and natural environmental hazards, buildings and other civil infrastructure may be susceptible to damage due to events outside the design envelope, which may include extreme windstorms, earthquakes, flooding, accidents or intentional malevolence. The human and economic losses that result from such damage can be significant. Changes in design and construction practices over the past several decades have made some modern structural systems vulnerable to extreme and abnormal events. Social and political factors also have led to an increase in events that may pose a threat to civil infrastructure. Finally, public awareness of infrastructure performance and safety issues has increased markedly in recent years. The move toward risk-informed design, with its formal tools for analyzing uncertainties and consequences of damage or failures in the built environment, promises a level of coherence in decision-making that cannot be achieved by judgment alone, and increases the likelihood that judgements, when necessary, are consistent with logic and the available data. Codes and standards provide a highly visible forum for demonstrating economic and social benefits of risk-informed design. Chapter 3 explores the prospects of improving engineering practices to enhance facility robustness and to manage the risk of unacceptable damage from low-probability, high-consequence threats.

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“…Figure A6 provides further information on www.sra.org (Society for Risk Analysis) and www.eird.org/americas/indexeng.html (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) as sources that contribute to safety, care, and protection in operations and projects through developments, tools, and information at the service of stakeholders. These references are complemented with articles, publications, and developments in the foundations and strategic and operational dimensions of risk management, resilience, and reliability [35,37,38,40,76,77].…”

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Parameterization, Analysis, and Risk Management in a Comprehensive Management System with Emphasis on Energy and Performance (ISO 50001: 2018)

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The future of business development relies on the effective management of risks, opportunities, and energy and water resources. Here, we evaluate the application of best practices to identify, analyze, address, monitor, and control risks and opportunities (R/O) according to ISO 31000 and 50000. Furthermore, we shed light on tools, templates, ISO guides, and international documents that contribute to classifying, identifying, formulating control, and managing R/O parameterization in a comprehensive management system model, namely CMS QHSE3+, which consists of quality (Q), health and safety (HS), environmental management (E), energy efficiency (E2), and other risk components (+) that include comprehensive biosecurity and biosafety. By focusing on the deployment of R/O-based thinking (ROBT) at strategic and operational levels, we show vulnerability reduction in CMS QHSE3+ by managing energy, efficiency, and sustainability.

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A risk interpretation of sociotechnical safety perspectives

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats

Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats

Risk-Informed Approaches for Mitigating Impacts of Extreme and Abnormal Events in the Built Environment

Parameterization, Analysis, and Risk Management in a Comprehensive Management System with Emphasis on Energy and Performance (ISO 50001: 2018)

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