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"Safety Management Systems and their Origins: Insights from the Aviation Industry presents different perspectives on SMS to better decode what it means as a safety approach and what it implicitly conveys beyond safety. Using the aviation industry as the basis for analysis, the book examines where SMS stands in terms of safety enhancement"--

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between risk communication and safety practices leads to a new, more societal perspective on risk communication, that allows for smart risk governance and safety management. This book is Open Access under a CC-BY licence.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Uncertainty: New Perspectives, Questions and Proposals -- 1.1 Uncertainty: A New Perspective on Safety -- 1.2 Uncertainty: New Questions for Safety Management -- 1.3 Uncertainty: New Proposals -- 2 Uncertainty---Its Ontological Status and Relation to Safety -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 From Risk to Uncertainty -- 2.1.2 The Connotation and Use of the Concept of Safety, Security, Risk and (un)Certainty -- 2.1.3 MSc Students' Perception of Uncertainty When Studying Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger -- 2.1.4 Uncertainty and Its Relation to Risk Theory and Conceptualizations -- 2.2 Contextual Prerequisites for the Uncertainty Concept -- 2.2.1 Time---Past, Present and the Future -- 2.2.2 System States Through Lenses of Scientific Disciplines -- 2.3 Perspectives on Uncertainty in Various Enterprises/Sectors -- 2.3.1 Health Sector -- 2.3.2 Aviation/Helicopter Transport -- 2.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3 A Conceptual Foundation for Assessing and Managing Risk, Surprises and Black Swans -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Risk Perspectives, Brief Review of Historical and Recent Development Trends -- 3.3 Risk, Surprises and Black Swans -- 3.4 Assessing and Managing Surprising Events and Black Swans -- 3.4.1 Assessment -- 3.4.2 Risk Management -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Recognizing Complexity in Risk Management: The Challenge of the Improbable -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Revisiting the Concepts -- 4.2.1 Limitations of the Current Paradigm -- 4.2.2 The Total Predetermination Fallacy -- 4.2.3 What Is Uncertainty? -- 4.2.4 Environment Ontologies: A Taxonomy of Complexity -- 4.2.5 Uncertainty and Cognitive Control -- 4.2.6 Uncertainty and Risk Management -- 4.3 Is There a `Credible Alternative'? -- 4.3.1 Nature and Scope of Necessary Changes -- 4.3.2 Suggesting New Trails -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References.

This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively. The book explores the coupling of safety and security from different perspectives, especially: the concepts and methods of risk, safety and security; the managerial aspects; user experiences in connection with safety and security. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of safety and security, and to anyone working at a business or in an industry concerned with how safety and security should be managed.

International audience ; This chapter discusses some of the research and management challenges related to the safety and security nexus. In the first part, we address the conceptual connections between safety and security and discuss how different perspectives on how they come together allows for characterizing the complexity and ambivalence of their interrelations. We then go on to identify tradeoffs between safety and security and show that these exist both in theory and practice. Managing both safety and security means tradeoffs and power relations between internal entities and professionals, but also beyond its own boundaries since some vulnerabilities escape the organization's scope. In the final part of the chapter, we argue that addressing the interrelations between safety and security poses managerial and research challenges that call for global approaches to apprehend the multiple facets of the issue. We explain that little has been done on how the global trends of the risk society bring with them unanticipated and "hidden" effects on organizations safety and security practices and that it is here, as a macro-global oriented approach to organizational safety and security research, that the two fields of safety and security confront a shared research agenda.

International audience ; This chapter discusses some of the research and management challenges related to the safety and security nexus. In the first part, we address the conceptual connections between safety and security and discuss how different perspectives on how they come together allows for characterizing the complexity and ambivalence of their interrelations. We then go on to identify tradeoffs between safety and security and show that these exist both in theory and practice. Managing both safety and security means tradeoffs and power relations between internal entities and professionals, but also beyond its own boundaries since some vulnerabilities escape the organization's scope. In the final part of the chapter, we argue that addressing the interrelations between safety and security poses managerial and research challenges that call for global approaches to apprehend the multiple facets of the issue. We explain that little has been done on how the global trends of the risk society bring with them unanticipated and "hidden" effects on organizations safety and security practices and that it is here, as a macro-global oriented approach to organizational safety and security research, that the two fields of safety and security confront a shared research agenda.

This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial safety in terms of technological risk-management, although of obvious concern to international actors in various industries, has been quite sparsely addressed. This brief reflects the viewpoints of experts who come from different academic disciplines and various sectors such as oil and gas, energy, transportation, and the digital and even the military worlds, as expressed in debates and discussions during a two-day international seminar. The contributors address such questions as: What influence will ageing and lack of digital skills in the workforce of the occidental world have on safety culture? What are the likely impacts of big data, artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies on decision-making, and on the roles and responsibilities of individual actors and whole organizations? What role have human beings in a world of accelerating changes? What effects will societal concerns and the entrance of new players have on technological risk management and governance? Managing Future Challenges for Safety will interest and influence researchers considering the future effects of a number of currently developing technologies and their practitioner counterparts working in industry and regulation.

This open access book addresses several questions regarding the implementation of human and organisational factors (HOF) so that recent improvements in industrial safety can be built upon. It addresses sources of frustration in senior management with high expectations of operational recommendations and disquiet on the part of HOF specialists struggling to have an impact on high-level decision making. The brief explores these issues with an emphasis on examples and lessons learned based on the experience of its authors, who come from different academic disciplines and various industrial sectors such as oil and gas, energy and transportation. It then offers some ways forward for a better consideration of HOF in hazardous companies with a view of promoting safety and facing challenges in a rapidly changing world.

The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the "safety cloud", and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying out dangerous activities? First, while the term "safety culture" is widely shared among the academic and industrial world, it leads to various interpretations and therefore different positioning when it comes to assess, improve or change it. Many safety theories, concepts, and models coexist today, being more or less appealing and/or directly useful to the industry. How, and based on which criteria, to choose from the available options? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which benefits from the expertise of its worldwide famous authors in several industrial sectors.