Citation

Martinetti A, Chatzimichailidou MM, Maida L, van Dongen L. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2019; 25(1): 66-75.

Affiliation

Netherlands Railways , The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2018.1444724

PMID

29473459

Abstract

Occupational health and safety (OHS) represents an important field of exploration for the research community: in spite of the growing of the technological innovations, the raising complexity of systems involves critical issues in terms of degradation of the safety levels. In such a situation, new safety management approaches (SMA) are now mandatory in order to face the safety implications of the current technological evolutions. Along these lines, performing risk-based analysis alone seems not to be enough anymore. The evaluation of robustness, antifragility and resilience of a socio-technical system is now indispensable in order to face unforeseen events. The paper will briefly introduce the topics of Safety I and Safety II, Resilience Engineering and Antifragility Engineering explaining correlations, overlapping aspects and synergies. Secondly, it will discuss the applications of those paradigms to a real accident highlighting how they can challenge, stimulate and inspire researches for improving OHS conditions.

Language: en

Keywords

Mobile Elevating Work Platform; Resilience Engineering and Antifragility Engineering; Safety I and Safety II