Overview

Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions provides a unique perspective into the latest developments of safety science by putting together, for the first time, a new generation of authors with some of the pioneers of the field. Forty years ago, research traditions were developed, including, among others, high-reliability organisations, cognitive system engineering or safety regulations. In a fast-changing world, the new generation introduces, in this book, new disciplinary insights, addresses contemporary empirical issues, develops new concepts and models while remaining critical of safety research practical ambitions. Their ideas are then reflected and discussed by some of the pioneers of safety science. Features Allows the reader to discover how contemporary safety issues are currently framed by a new generation of researchers, brought together for the first time Includes an introduction and guide to the development of safety science over the last four decades Features an extraordinary collection of expert contributors, including pioneers of safety research, reflecting the evolution of the discipline and offering insightful commentary on the current and future state of the field Serves as an invaluable reference and guide for safety professionals and students from any established disciplines such as sociology, engineering, psychology, political science or management as well as dedicated safety programmes Some figures in the eBook are in colour

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Author:   Jean-Christophe Le Coze
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780815392699

ISBN 10:   0815392699
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   19 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section I: New Generation. Chapter 1: Standardisation and Digitalisation. Changes in Work as Imagined and What This Means for Safety Science. Chapter 2: The Interaction between Safety Culture and National Culture. Chapter 3: Governance for Safety in Inter-Organizational Project Networks. Chapter 4: Coping with Globalisation: Robust Regulation and Safety in High-Risk Industries. Chapter 5: On Ignorance and Apocalypse: A Brief Introduction to ‘Epistemic Accidents’. Chapter 6: Revisiting the Issue of Power in Safety Research. Chapter 7: Sensework. Chapter 8: Drift and the Social Attenuation of Risk. Chapter 9: Safety and the Professions: Natural or Strange Bedfellows? Chapter 10: Visualising Safety. Chapter 11: The Discursive Effects of Safety Science. Chapter 12: Investigating Accidents: The Case for Disaster Case Studies in Safety Science. Chapter 13: Towards Actionable Safety Science. Chapter 14: Safety Research and Safety Practice: Islands in a Common Sea. Section II: Pioneers. Chapter 15: Safety Research: 2020 Visions. Chapter 16: The Gilded Age? Chapter 17: Observing the English Weather: A Personal Journey from Safety I to IV. Chapter 18: A Conundrum for Safety Science. Chapter 19: Some Thoughts on Future Directions in Safety Research. Chapter 20: Redescriptions of High-Risk Organisational Life. Chapter 21: Skin in the Game: When Safety becomes Personal.

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Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a safety researcher (PhD, Mines ParisTech) at INERIS, the French national institute for environmental safety. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems, with an empirical, theoretical, historical and epistemological orientation.

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