Investigations following major accidents sometimes find that auditing failed to identify critical
deficiencies. Such findings assume that the deficiencies were just waiting to be found: if only …

Post Normal Accident revisits Perrow's classic Normal Accident published in 1984 and
provides additional insights to our sociological view of safety-critical organisations. The …

Inappropriate decisions are often regarded as causes of major accidents in the process
industries. To improve the quality of decisions, it is important to make right information …

Construction health and safety (H&S) is usually managed using a top-down approach of
regulating workers' behaviour through the implementation and enforcement of prescriptive …

Organizational responses to financial crises have contributed to workplace changes,
including a reliance on multi-tier sub-contracting chains. An extensive research literature …

Risk-related decision problems are the problems that influence the risk of accidents. In most
cases, the probability of major accidents is very low, but their consequences can be extreme …

Barry Turner's 1978 Man-made Disasters and Charles Perrow's 1984 Normal Accidents
were seminal books but a detailed comparison has yet to be undertaken. Doing so is …

Education and learning are key topics in the safety research literature but the literature
focuses primarily on organisational learning from accidents and non-technical skills for …

This paper examines the dynamics of expert collaboration in industry standard development.
The use of expert committees in the development of standards is common practice, and yet …

Organizations that manage complex technologies use planning in various forms to
determine priorities and structure work with the goal of controlling both production and …