Abstract
Occupational health and safety (OHS) represents an important field of exploration for the research community: in spite of the growing of the technological innovations, the raising complexity of systems involves critical issues in terms of degradation of the safety levels.
In such a situation, new safety management approaches (SMA) are now mandatory in order to face the safety implications of the current technological evolutions. Along these lines, performing risk-based analysis alone seems not to be enough anymore. The evaluation of robustness, antifragility and resilience of a socio-technical system is now indispensable in order to face unforeseen events.
The paper will briefly introduce the topics of Safety I and Safety II, Resilience Engineering and Antifragility Engineering explaining correlations, overlapping aspects and synergies. Secondly, it will discuss the applications of those paradigms to a real accident highlighting how they can challenge, stimulate and inspire researches for improving OHS conditions.
In such a situation, new safety management approaches (SMA) are now mandatory in order to face the safety implications of the current technological evolutions. Along these lines, performing risk-based analysis alone seems not to be enough anymore. The evaluation of robustness, antifragility and resilience of a socio-technical system is now indispensable in order to face unforeseen events.
The paper will briefly introduce the topics of Safety I and Safety II, Resilience Engineering and Antifragility Engineering explaining correlations, overlapping aspects and synergies. Secondly, it will discuss the applications of those paradigms to a real accident highlighting how they can challenge, stimulate and inspire researches for improving OHS conditions.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 66-75 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2018 |
Keywords
- UT-Hybrid-D
- Resilience Engineering
- Antifragility Engineering
- Mobile Elevating Work Platform
- Safety