Call for Papes: Workshop on Maintenance Work in Safety-critical Organizations

The workshop Maintenance Work in Safety-critical Organizations - Understanding and Managing the Human Factor will take place on October 19th –21st 2011 at the University of Stavanger, Norway. The aim of the workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from various safety-critical domains to share experiences and discuss cutting edge research on the human factor in maintenance.

Change processes in the transport sector

The full project title is: “Every little helps? On safety challenges posed by the many changes occurring simultaneously in the Norwegian transport sector”.

Risk, safety and flooding

Controlling the risk of flooding through technology and social institutions wraps the natural environment in an ever more complex technical system.

HSE culture in the petroleum industry – the relationship between behaviour and culture

The petroleum industry is characterised by stringent demands and ideals relating to work by the companies on health, safety and the environment.

Profiling and information security

Computer hacking is a growing problem. The threat of terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure means that serious efforts are now being made to understand such intrusions.

Safety culture and patient safety

The goal of this project is to study the characteristics of the safety culture in Norwegian hospitals.

Child in the car – a study of the introduction of the child seat

How has the child in the car been redefined as a risk? How did this new definition arise? Who had the power to introduce the definition?

Use of risk tools in local authorities

Organising operational safety – exploring practice in aviation line maintenance

A sudden failure in rational behaviour seldom causes accidents. More often, the reasons for an incident are to be found in the complex and emergent web of minds, cultures and contexts – the constituents of the social setting.