"The complexity of today's large organisations, businesses and social institutions defeat management approaches based on monolithic thinking and simple solutions. Synesis represents a unification of principles and practices that is needed to reconcile multiple priorities and align multiple...

Safety management anno 2016 -- What does "resilience" mean? -- The basis for resilient performance -- The resilience potentials -- RAG : the resilience assessment grid -- RAG : towards a model of resilient performance -- Developing resilience potentials -- The changing face of safety.

This article relates the findings of an ethnographically informed study conducted at a Swedish Nuclear Power Plant. It describes a set of events while the plant was shut down for a short non-productive outage. In order to understand better how high-reliability organizations successfully manage...

The development of human factor- (HF) related regulations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has often been the result of responses to maritime accidents. The typical reaction to an accident has been a combination of (mainly technical) regulations, changing of procedures and...