Safety seeks to ensure that no unacceptable damage occurs.
The capacity of organizations to make sense of their environment, detect new threats, and adopt new technical, human and organizational measures, are all factors contributing to risk management.
Why is this topic important?
In reality, the context of the industrial world is uncertain and evolving. Consequently, it is essential to better-understand how companies and organizations that manage potentially hazardous activities can remain safe, or even become safer.
How can they diagnose their capacity to withstand involuntary changes and technical, human or organizational failures? Moreover, how can they reinforce these capabilities with best practices to ensure that they maintain a high level of safety?
The results: two HOF guidelines
Human and organizational factors of industrial safety
Taking account of human and organisational factors in planning and designing a high risk system
Call for proposals
The call for scientific proposals on this theme was launched in 2006.
Selected research projects
- Drafting and testing of a human and organizational safety factors reference framework
Team led by François Daniellou (University of Bordeaux, France) - Towards an ‘operationalization’ of concepts and methods related to organizational resilience
Team led by Yves Dien (EDF R&D, France) - Validation of a technical, human and organizational safety assessment method (Athos)
Team led by Jean-Christophe Le Coze (Ineris, France) - Quantitative techniques for the vulnerability analysis of critical network systems and infrastructures
Team led by Enrico Zio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) - Social risk sharing as a management imperative? The case of high-risk industry on the outskirts of Marseille
Team led by Jean-Michel Fourniau (CESSA, Marseille, France)