Beyond Normal Accidents and High Reliability Organizations: The Need for an Alternative Approach to Safety in Complex Systems

Topics:
Accidents,
Analysis
Tags:
Accident,
Human Resources,
Policies And Procedures,
Safety
Source:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Overview: The two prevailing organizational approaches to safety, Normal Accidents and HROs, both limit the progress that can be made toward achieving highly safe systems by too narrowly defining the problem and the potential solutions. One believes that a systems approach to safety will allow building safety into socio-technical systems more e?ectively and provide higher confidence than is currently possible for complex, high-risk systems.

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Format: PDF | Size: 115KB | Date: Apr 2004 | Pages: 16

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