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Why Safety Cultures Degenerate: And How To Revive Them Johan Berglund New edition
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Why Safety Cultures Degenerate: And How To Revive Them
Johan Berglund
From Chernobyl to Fukushima, have we come full circle, where formalisation has replaced ambiguity and a decadent style of management, to the point where it is becoming counter-productive? Safety culture is a contested concept and a complex phenomenon, which has been much debated in recent years. In some high-risk activities, like the operating of nuclear power plants, transparency, traceability and standardisation have become synonymous with issues of quality. Meanwhile, the experience-based knowledge that forms the basis of manuals and instructions is liable to decline. In the long-term, arguably, it is the cultural changes and its adverse impacts on co-operation, skill and ability of judgement that will pose the greater risks to the safety of nuclear plants and other high-risk facilities. Johan Berglund examines the background leading up to the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011 and highlights the function of practical proficiency in the quality and safety of high-risk activities. The accumulation of skill represents a more indirect and long-term approach to quality, oriented not towards short-term gains but (towards) delayed gratification. Risk management and quality professionals and academics will be interested in the links between skill, quality and safety-critical work as well as those interested in a unique insight into Japanese culture and working life as well as fresh perspectives on safety culture.
106 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 20, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472476067 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 106 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 240 × 12 mm · 306 g |
| Language | English |
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