Framework for evaluating safety critical organizations
A safety critical organization can be defined as any organization that has to deal with or control such hazards that can cause significant harm to the environment, public or personnel. Control of risk and management of safety is one of their primary goals. The ability of the organization to monitor its current state, anticipate possible deviations, react to expected or unexpected perturbations, and learn from weak signals and past incidents is critical for success. Organizational evaluation is one way of reflecting on this ability. The aim of organizational evaluation should be to promote increased understanding of the sociotechnical system and how it is currently creating safety and identifying its vulnerabilities. Evaluation contributes to organizational development and management. We will present the basic premises of a framework for evaluating safety critical organizations. It is concluded that organizational evaluation plays a key role in the monitoring as well as controlling and steering of the organizational safety culture.
Teemu Reiman Pia Oedewald
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-10
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）