Safety Cultures, Safety Models: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii An Industrial View on Safety Culture and Safety Models (Olivier Guillaume, Nicolas Herchin, Christian Neveu, Philippe Noël)....Pages 1-13 Safety Models, Safety Cultures: What Link? (Claude Gilbert)....Pages 15-20 Understanding Safety Culture Through Models and Metaphors (Frank W. Guldenmund)....Pages 21-34 The Use and Abuse of “Culture” (Andrew Hopkins)....Pages 35-45 The Safety Culture Construct: Theory and Practice (M. Dominic Cooper)....Pages 47-61 A Pluralist Approach to Safety Culture (Benoît Journé)....Pages 63-69 Culture as Choice (David Marx)....Pages 71-79 Safety, Model, Culture (Jean-Christophe Le Coze)....Pages 81-92 On the Importance of Culture for Safety: Bridging Modes of Operation in Adaptive Safety Management (Gudela Grote)....Pages 93-103 Safety Culture and Models: “Regime Change” (Mathilde Bourrier)....Pages 105-119 Safety Culture in a Complex Mix of Safety Models: Are We Missing the Point? (Corinne Bieder)....Pages 121-126 Key Issues in Understanding and Improving Safety Culture (Stian Antonsen)....Pages 127-136 Safety Cultures in the Safety Management Landscape (Jean Pariès)....Pages 137-150 The Commodification of Safety Culture and How to Escape It (Hervé Laroche)....Pages 151-158 A Synthesis (François Daniellou)....Pages 159-161 Back Matter ....Pages 163-166