Overview
- Deals with issues affecting workplace safety and employee mental health
- Explores the contrast between professional autonomy and centralized prescription in working practices
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Safety Management (BRIEFSSM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This open access 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.
This book deals with issues of interest to researchers and graduate students in safety science and organization studies and to members of expert bodies and experts in industry and consultancy concerned with similar subjects.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a safety researcher (Ph.D., 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, visual and epistemological orientation. He has authored several books and numerous journal articles on safety science and is an associate editor of the journal Safety Science.
Benoît Journé is a professor of management at the University of Nantes, France; the director of the RESOH; and the chair at the IMT Atlantique—LEMNA. His research concerns reliability and resilience of high-hazard industrial systems, and in particular nuclear power, and pragmatist approaches to strategy and management. He is the author of numerous journal articles and an editor of several collective volumes on safety science topics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety
Book Subtitle: A Systems Perspective on Managing Tensions and Building Complementarity
Editors: Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45055-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45054-9Published: 15 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45055-6Published: 14 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 87
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Management, Industrial Organization, Industrial Organization