Ragnar Rosness, Tor Olav Grøtan, Geir Guttormsen, Ivonne A. Herrera, Trygve Steiro, Fred Størseth, Ranveig K. Tinmannsvik, Irene Wærø
2010-12-15
141 sider
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Several major accidents are related to the interplay of organisational properties and technology. The aim of this report is to present a set of perspectives that can help us understand the organisational mechanisms related to major accidents. Six perspectives are discussed:

1. The energy and barrier perspective;
2. The theory of Normal Accidents;
3. The theory of High Reliability Organisations;
4. The information processing perspective;
5. A decision-making perspective;
6. The Resilience Engineering perspective.

The target groups of the report are researchers, students and advanced practitioners.