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Assessing resilience engineering based on safety culture and managerial factors
Author(s) -
Shirali G.H.A.,
Mohammadfam I.,
Motamedzade M.,
Ebrahimipour, V.,
Moghimbeigi A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.10485
Subject(s) - safety culture , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , risk analysis (engineering) , process (computing) , engineering , process management , operations management , business , computer science , management , psychology , economics , social psychology , physics , thermodynamics , operating system
Resilience engineering (RE) is the inherent capacity of a plant to cope with complex and unexpected events. The real challenge for RE is to recognize that complex systems are dynamic and that dynamic systems may sometimes change from a state of dynamic stability into a state of dynamic instability. This article explores RE based on safety culture indicators and managerial factors. In a plant survey we measured seven safety culture indicators and four management factors that are known to influence RE. We describe a simple survey method that can be used to identify deficiencies related to RE. For example, we found three major problems; that is, (a) poor safety training, (b) poor management of change, and (c) poor attitudes (looking for scapegoats and placing production ahead of safety). © 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog, 2012