Systemic characteristics of a Human and Organizational Factors (HOF) approach of safety management

Vautier, Jean-François; Dechy, Nicolas; Brunélis, Thierry Coye de; Hernandez, Guillaume; Launay, Richard

doi:10.4324/9780429486982-99

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“…It expresses the concept of interaction and allows the creation of an explicative model that offers recommendations that may act on the factors that influence the system outputs. This kind of explicative model provides a representation of the coherence or adaptation between the system factors (Vautier et al 2018). Being coherent is equivalent to being well suited to one another.…”

Section: Coherence Between System Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benefits of systems thinking for a human and organizational factors approach to safety management

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This paper highlights the value of systems theory and its application to human and organizational factors (HOF). HOF specialists consider multiple systems characteristics in their analyses but are often unaware of the relevant theory applied in their analysis. We argue that a structured effort to take key systems characteristics into account in HOF practice would increase the depth and breadth of safety management analyses and help HOF specialists to act more effectively on industrial socio-technical systems. First, the paper identifies the following seven system theory characteristics: constitution, multi-axis representation, limit, emergence, variety, coherence, and causal interaction, which are then illustrated with examples from the HOF field. Finally, we discuss the two main benefits of integrating system thinking in a HOF approach to safety management: (1) an improved understanding of the inner workings of an industrial socio-technical system; and (2) a compendium or a reference to guide for decision-making and the implementation of actions within the industrial socio-technical systems.

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Section: Coherence Between System Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%