Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety: A Systems Perspective on Managing Tensions and Building Complementarity by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 91 Pages | ISBN : 303145054X | 1.8 MB
This book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an organization and designed to anticipate possible hazards in system operation, is really incompatible with the idea that the professional expertise of front-line workers is what promotes safe outcomes despite inevitable unanticipated perturbations. The contributors, drawn from academic and industrial backgrounds, demonstrate that rather than being at odds with each other, rules-compliance and proactivity are in fact complementary resources the coexistence of which increases safety. Furthermore, the implications of this approach extend beyond safety, being relevant to business performance, strategies for innovation and system resilience as well.