Are organisations too complex to be integrated in technical risk assessment and current safety auditing?

Safety Science

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 613-638

  Le Coze, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

Author keywords

Accident; Complexity; Crossdisciplinarity; Organisation; Safety auditing

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; HAZARDS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COMPLEXITY; CROSSDISCIPLINARITY; HAZARD PREVENTION; SAFETY AUDITING;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACCIDENT; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CLASSIFICATION; CYBERNETICS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENGINEERING; HAZARD; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORY;

EID: 27544460991     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2005.06.005     Document Type: Review

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