Overview
- Is an open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Shows combination of academic and industrial approaches that balances theoretical ideas with practical realism
- Presents cross-disciplinary approach to an area—safety—of significant recent and future public concern
- Analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Safety Management (BRIEFSSM)
Buy print copy
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected with safety. It analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors such as nuclear power, chemical processing, and transport with those in the finance and healthcare sectors.
The relationship between regulating and regulated entities is important in ensuring that safety is not subordinated to other concerns and in maintaining public confidence. As a result, the brief addresses various pressures and trade-offs inherent in that relationship, trade-offs between such considerations as:
The contributors show how, over time, a more horizontal or “decentred” approach to regulatory oversight has appeared, with a larger degree of delegation of certain decisions to industry and a greater role for a range of third parties such as certification bodies, auditors, insurers, industry associations and NGOs.
This book is of interest to academics working in the fields of safety science or organizational management and to practitioners, regulators and policy-makers concerned with health and safety and critical infrastructure.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a research director (Ph.D., Mines de Paris) 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, visual, and epistemological orientation. He has authored several books and numerous journal articles on safety. He is an associate editor of the journal Safety Science.
Benoit Journé is a professor of Strategic Management and Organization Sciences at Nantes University (Institute of Business Administration), France. He is a member of the LEMNA research lab, where he carries out qualitative research in the domain of organizational reliability and resilience, with a focus on nuclear safety. He founded a research chair in partnership with the French nuclear industry and led a major post-Fukushima research project. His research has been published in variousjournals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors
Book Subtitle: New Actors and New Viewpoints in a Conservative Landscape
Editors: Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49570-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49569-4Published: 17 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49570-0Published: 16 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 114
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Industrial Organization, Industrial Organization