The operator of the future: a new Springer publication

It’s not just the multicolored cover that makes the SpringerBriefs in Safety Management collection stand out, it’s a new open access book that Foncsi has just published in its open access Springer collection (but it does have a new cover!).

The latest addition to the collection was published at the beginning of October, under the title Managing Future Challenges for Safety. Demographic Change, Digitalisation and Complexity in the 2030s. This scientific work, coordinated by Caroline Kamaté, presents the results of the strategic analysis on the operator of the future.

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Focus on the theme: the operator, and safety, of the future

Massive digitization, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, an aging population, skills’ shortages, climate and health crises... Between now and 2030–40, the major changes that are taking place in the world will have a deep impact on both work and the industry. But what is the future for safety management and governance in high-risk industries? This book addresses the question of the ‘safety of the future’.

We expect that it will be of particular interest to researchers who are considering the future effects of a number of technologies that are currently under development, together with their counterparts who are working in the industry and regulatory bodies.

The articles and their authors

This work contains around a dozen articles by international experts:

• Times Are Changing and so Is Safety, by Corinne Bieder (Enac) and Jesús Villena-López (Ergotec)
• Evolution in the Way of Waging War for Combatants and Military Leaders, by Gérard de Boisboissel (Centre de recherche des Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan)
• Learning from the Military, by Hervé Laroche (ESCP Business School) and Florence Reuzeau (Airbus)
• Critical Digital Services, by John Allspaw (Adaptive Capacity Labs)
• Between Natural and Artificial Intelligence, by Stian Antonsen (NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
• Careers Surpassing a Half-Century: A Look at Japan and France, by Akira Tose (Niigata University) and Dounia Tazi (ICSI)
• Senior Mentoring, Skills Transfer Subject to Conditions, by Tania Navarro Rodríguez and Alexandre Largier (IRSN)
• Airbus Global Workforce Forecast (GWF) , by Béatrice Pons, Jean-Hugues Rodriguez and Florence Reuzeau (Airbus)
• Rethinking Competencies in Hazardous Industries, by Alexandre Largier (IRSN)
• The Design of ‘Future Work’ in Industrial Contexts, by Flore Barcellini (Cnam)
• Standardization and Risk Regulation for High-Hazard Industries, by Michael Baram (School of Law, Boston University) and Corinne Bieder (ENAC)
• Adaptive Imagination at Work in Health Care, by Steven Shorrock (Eurocontrol)
• Conjectures and Challenges of Safety Management, by Jean Pariès (FonCSI-ICSI)

And there’s more! Coming soon: a Notebook

An academic book has just been published by Springer... but that’s not all: the Foundation is also preparing a new Industrial Safety Notebook!

This report will present the results of the Foundation’s strategic analysis on the operator of the future, but this time in French. We expect to make it available on our website by the end of 2022.

Until then, we hope that you will enjoy this new Springer book, and we encourage you to share it with your colleagues!