The safety management literature describes two distinct modes through which safety is
achieved. These can be described as safety management through centralized control, or …

Abstract 'Safety work'consists of activities, conducted within organisations, that have the
primary purpose of managing safety. Safety work is distinct from operational work, which …

Investigations following major accidents sometimes find that auditing failed to identify critical
deficiencies. Such findings assume that the deficiencies were just waiting to be found: if only …

Validation is a prominent challenge in the domain of risk management in general, and
hazard analysis in particular. Practitioners have highlighted a lack of clear guidance on how …

Abstract Safety Management Systems are developed to help manage occupational risk, but
they can also increase an organisation's exposure to risk. This contradictory effect may …

In this paper, we provide a description of a previously unlabelled and under-theorised
problem in safety management–'safety clutter'. Safety clutter is the accumulation of safety …

Safety analysis frequently relies on human estimates of the likelihood of specific events. For
this purpose, the opinions of experts are given greater weight than the opinions of non …

While many hazard analysis techniques exist, little empirical research has been dedicated to
their use in industrial contexts, in particular concerning how practitioners validate hazard …

Since its inception, the STPA technique has gained increasing popularity among
researchers and industry practitioners. Nevertheless, the validity of its application has not yet …

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the extent to which health and safety action controls,
results controls and informal controls affect the integration of health and safety issues into …