Trapping Safety into Rules: How Desirable or Avoidable is Proceduralization?
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1409452263 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is no surprise to see them to be paramount in safety management. As some sociologists argue, routine and rule following is not always socially resented. As soon as safety is involved, there seems to be an irresistible push towards a wider scope of norms, procedures and processes, whatever the context implied. However, it seems that the exclusive and intensive use of procedures today is in fact a threat to new progress in safety. There is also no doubt that proceduralization and documented activities have brought progress, avoided recurrent mistakes and allowed for 'best practices' to be adopted. Facing constant unexpected events entails fatigue and exhaustion. Underlying these questions, there is a growing suspicion that the path taken might in fact lead to a dead end, unless the concept of procedure and the conditions under which these procedures are developed are revisited.. There is an urgent need to consider this issue because there is doubt that the path chosen by many hazardous industries and activities is the most effective, safety wise, considering the safety level achieved today. This book is not a plea against proceduralization, but it does take the view that it is time to reassess how far it can still go and to what benefit. Rules and procedures are key features for a modern organization to function. It can bring people comfort and reduce anxieties of newness and uncertainty
She has conducted extensive studies at nuclear power plants in France and in the US and has also worked in public hospitals, looking at skills and know-how transmission in Anaesthesiology. She started her career doing research for Electricité de France on Human Reliability Analysis in the nuclear industry actively participating in the development and deployment of the MERMOS method (1994-2000). Her rese
The essays make a major contribution to our understanding of how overly detailed and specific procedural rules may raise new problems and risks as their volume and formalization increase, limiting discretion and impeding learning from mistakes or errors.' --Professor Emeritus Gene Rochlin, University of California, Berkeley, USA . It provides an overview of the history of the development of procedures, the interaction of culture with procedures, and some of the effects procedures can have on the exec