Archetypes for organizational safety

We propose an initial set of six system safety archetypes that model common dynamic organizational behaviours that often lead to accidents. The archetypes help clarify why safety-related decisions do not always result in the desired behaviour, and how independent decisions in different pans of the o...

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Published in:Safety science Vol. 44; no. 7; pp. 565 - 582
Main Authors: Marais, Karen, Saleh, Joseph H., Leveson, Nancy G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 01.08.2006
Elsevier
Subjects:
Accident model
Biological and medical sciences
Legislation. Organization
Medical sciences
Occupational medicine
Organizational behaviour
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk dynamics
Root cause analysis
Root cause analysis
Organizational behaviour
Risk dynamics
Accident model
Human
Archetype
Modeling
Occupational accident
Work safety
Accident
Cause
Risk factor
Models
Behavior
Occupational medicine
ISSN:0925-7535, 1879-1042
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Summary:We propose an initial set of six system safety archetypes that model common dynamic organizational behaviours that often lead to accidents. The archetypes help clarify why safety-related decisions do not always result in the desired behaviour, and how independent decisions in different pans of the organization can combine to have a negative, and often unforeseen, impact on safety. Examples from the NASA manned space program and general industry are used to illustrate the archetypes. As accident analysis and investigation tools, the archetypes can be used to develop dynamic models that describe the systemic and organizational factors contributing to accidents. As risk analysis tools, the archetypes can be used to improve understanding of the ways that risk can arise in complex socio-technical systems.
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ISSN:0925-7535
1879-1042
DOI:10.1016/j.ssci.2005.12.004