Inside Hazardous Technological Systems Methodological foundations, challenges and future directions

Foreword: qualitative inquiries into safety research

Silvia Gherardi

1.Hazardous technological systems from the inside out: An Introduction

Kenneth Gould & Carl Macrae

2.Turner and the Sociology of Disasters

Andrew Hopkins

3.Access, Methods and Knowledge when exploring High-hazard Systems: Lessons from the Past for the Future

Mathilde Bourrier

4.In the footsteps of Turner…from grounded theory to conceptual ethnography in safety

Jean-christophe Le Coze

5.Case studies in safety research

Stian Antonsen 6 Torgeir Haavik

6.Actor Network Theory and Sensework in Safety Research

Torgeir Haavik

7.Learning to do ethnography in complex systems

Christian H. Kuran

8.Work as planned, as done and as desired:A framework for exploring everyday safety-critical practice

Andrew J. Rae, David E. Weber, Sidney W. A. Dekker

9.Combining lenses: Pragmatics and action research in safety science.

Trond Kongsvik & Petter Almklov, Norway

10.Bridging an Unsafe Divide: In Search of Integrated Safety Science Research

Paul Schulman

11.Large-scale mixed-method evaluation of safety programmes and interventions

Graham Martin, Jane O´Hara & Justin Waring

12.Putting senior management in focus: A critical reflection on the direction of safety science research

Jan Hayes and Sarah Maslen

13.Politics, accident research and analysis: the evolution of investigation methods and practices in healthcare

Siri Wiig, Jeffrey Braithwaite & Geir Sverre Braut

14.Exploring the grey area of cyber security in Industrial Control Systems (ICS):

 Alberto Zanutto

Afterword: Connoisseurship, the Sociological Imagination and Turner’s Qualitative Method

Nick Pidgeon

Biography

Kenneth Pettersen Gould is associate professor in risk management and societal safety at the University of Stavanger, specializing in organizational risk and safety management. His research concerns hazardous technologies; how risk, reliability, safety and security is analysed and managed in organizational contexts; and how regulatory and management strategies in these areas can be further developed.

Carl Macrae is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Psychology in the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning at Nottingham University Business School. His research examines how organisations manage safety, reliability and resilience; how people make sense of and learn from unexpected events; and how organisational and regulatory systems can be designed to support learning and improvement. Carl regularly advises organisations, regulators and policymakers on challenging safety and risk issues. Carl is also a Professor II in the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare at University of Stavanger, Norway.

"This collection is required reading for anyone seriously engaged in understanding large-scale organizations operating high-hazard technologies. It is an extraordinary reach across various analytical dialects seeking clarity and the possibilities of integration."

––––Todd R.LaPorte, Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School University of California, Berkeley

"The world of safety and technology are subject to rapid change. It is often hard for researchers and practitioners to keep up. Inside Hazardous Technological Systems does an excellent job of capturing the latest research in the world of safety. Moreover, a large part of the book is given over to a reappreciation of one of the pioneers of safety research, Professor Barry Turner. The book is a welcome revisiting of his work and contains contributions from the leading scholars in the fields of safety and risk. I’d recommend it as essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary perspectives on safety, hazards, and technological systems."

––– Patrick Waterson, Reader in Human Factors and Complex Systems, Loughborough Design School, University of Loughborough