Navigating Safety Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs - Theory and
Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety m
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René Amalberti
Navigating Safety Necessary Compromises and Trade-Of fs - Theory and Practice
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René Amalberti
Navigating Safety Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs Theory and Practice
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René Amalberti Haute Autorité de Santé Saint Denis-La Plaine France
ISSN 2191-530X ISSN 2191-5318 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-6548-1 ISBN 978-94-007-6549-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6549-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London
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Foreword
Fifteen Years Have Passed Since the Publication of “La conduite des systèmes à risques” [1, 2] The safety of complex systems has lost none of its currency; indeed the opposite is true. To cite a few examples, we could mention the twenty or so aviation disasters that still happen in the world every year, the chemical disasters which are almost as frequent but have longer lasting impacts, the explosion at the Total AZF plant at Toulouse in 2001, the sinking of the tanker Prestige causing an unprecedented oil slick on the French and Spanish coasts in 2002, the explosion at the BP oil refinery in Texas
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