Identifying and Constructing Risks

Carl Macrae

Chapter 6 in Close Calls, 2014, pp 138-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The early stages of risk identification are amongst the most critical but also the most challenging moments of safety management. It is, of course, only possible to analyse and address threats to organisational safety if those threats are identified in the first place. If the signs of emerging risks are misinterpreted, misunderstood — or entirely missed — then risk management can fail at this early stage, before it has barely begun. As explored in the previous chapter, investigators are acutely aware of the epistemic and interpretive challenges they face in overseeing safety and analysing risks. Investigators’ assumptions and beliefs about the interpretive risks associated with their work underpin a distinctive approach to identifying and analysing risks, and shape their interpretive practice. This chapter examines both this approach to safety oversight and the common practices of risk identification through which investigators work to uncover emerging and previously unknown risks.

Keywords: Organisational Activity; Flight Control; Risk Identification; Collective Awareness; Flight Crew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137376121_6

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