Why Safety Cultures Degenerate

Name: Why Safety Cultures Degenerate
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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And How To Revive Them

By: Johan Berglund

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Paperback | 30 June 2020

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98 Pages

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From Chernobyl to Fukushima, have we come full circle, where formalisation has replaced ambiguity and a decadent style of management, to the point where it is becoming counter-productive? Safety culture is a contested concept and a complex phenomenon, which has been much debated in recent years. In some high-risk activities, like the operating of nuclear power plants, transparency, traceability and standardisation have become synonymous with issues of quality. Meanwhile, the experience-based knowledge that forms the basis of manuals and instructions is liable to decline. In the long-term, arguably, it is the cultural changes and its adverse impacts on co-operation, skill and ability of judgement that will pose the greater risks to the safety of nuclear plants and other high-risk facilities. Johan Berglund examines the background leading up to the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011 and highlights the function of practical proficiency in the quality and safety of high-risk activities. The accumulation of skill represents a more indirect and long-term approach to quality, oriented not towards short-term gains but (towards) delayed gratification. Risk management and quality professionals and academics will be interested in the links between skill, quality and safety-critical work as well as those interested in a unique insight into Japanese culture and working life as well as fresh perspectives on safety culture.

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'Berglund's book is structured as a series of essays, with thorough references, linking to wider international literature. With the overall theme of Skill and Formalisation, which was developed in his PhD thesis on "The New Taylorism", he takes up issues which link nuclear power generation with wide current debates.'

Richard Ennals, AI & Society

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