Debates and politics in safety science

Haavik, Torgeir Kolstø

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2021, vol. 210, issue C

Abstract: This article explores what complementary perspectives Science and Technology Studies and in particular Actor Network Theory may bring to safety science beyond what comes out of traditional comparisons between highly profiled theories/perspectives of Normal Accident Theory (NAT), High Reliability Organisations (HRO), Resilience Engineering (RE) and Safety II.

Keywords: Safety science; Complexity; Uncertainty; Politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.107547

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