Systems Thinking in Risk Management by Preventive & Detective Controls as an Ago-Antagonistic Systems Approach in the French Nuclear Sector

Diana Paola Moreno Alarcon, Jean François Vautier, Guillaume Hernandez and Franck Guarnieri ()
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Diana Paola Moreno Alarcon: CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
Jean François Vautier: CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Guillaume Hernandez: CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Franck Guarnieri: CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

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Abstract: The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) employ preventive and detective controls, fundamental elements of risk management in the nuclear facilities of the French nuclear sector. Using an ago-antagonistic systems (AAS) approach, CEA managers balance two ago-antagonistic (AA) forces (preventive and detective controls) that together make an AA couple, to mitigate subcontracting risks. The systemic vision of AAS, underpinned by systems thinking, enables managers to consider the collective impact of adjusting either a single force or both forces, particularly as action(s) on the couple may rebalance the overall system. This paper illustrates how preventive and detective controls meet Bernard-Weil's eight principal characteristics of AAS. The temporal aspect of preventive and detective controls, at the nucleus of the AA model, and their time-sensitive role in averting and detecting an event are also discussed. Examples are provided of how CEA managers mitigate risk through AA couples by pursuing forces and considering them collectively in terms of "both /and" rather than separately in terms of "either/or".

Keywords: Systems Thinking; Ago-antagonistic Systems (AAS); Management Controls; Subcontracting; Nuclear Sector; Defence in Depth; Temporal aspects; Detective Controls; Preventive Controls; Risk Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09-22
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Published in 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2019), Sep 2019, Hannover, Germany. ⟨10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_0243-cd⟩

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