Human Factors and New Views of safety applied to management systems: A systematic literature review

This conference paper from Leonidas Brasileiro, Julio Cesar de Faria Alvim Wasserman and Gilson Brito Alves Lima may interest you.

It explored how different concepts under HF and New View have been applied to management systems via literature review (2000 – 2023).

Note: I’ve skipped a lot, so check out the paper.

Some extracts:

·      “New Views of Safety (NV) is a movement of researchers at the forefront of safety science … whose focus is to understand the complexity of work environments and human factors involved”

·      “The five most relevant approaches of NV are High Reliability Organizations (HRO), Resilience Engineering (RE), Safety II (SII), Safety Differently (SD), and Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)”

·      “The common factor between them are their roots and development around study of “human error” in the 1970s”

·      The peak citations was found for Rasmussen’s seminal 1997 article “Risk Management In a Dynamic Society”

·      “The most cited article in the research was Rasmussen’s. Thus, it is possible to infer that Cognitive Systems Engineering is a precursor of current knowledge about safety science”

·      Of the evaluated studies, Resilience Engineering was the most common topic, management systems next, then systems thinking

·      “The appearance of denominations associated with NV was limited. references to RE and HRO were found. Safety Differently, Safety II and HOP were not”

·      “Analysis of the co-occurrence network allows us to conclude that the central themes of the research, safety management and human factors were found detached from each other”

·      “It’s worth highlighting that Safety Culture and Behavior-Based Safety appeared in the review, demonstrating their relative importance, and RE and HRO are the most scientifically relevant NV approaches to date, which differs from the corporate world, with many references to Safety II, Safety Differently and HOP”

·      “Although there is disagreement between their relevance in the market and in academia, with RE and HRO being the most scientifically cited and Safety II, Safety Differently and HOP better known among safety practitioners, the understanding that all of these approaches are different from each other and work in different ways is not clear and could not be verified in this review”

Ref: Brasileiro, J. L. B., Wasserman, J. C. D. F. A., & Lima, G. B. A. (2024). HUMAN FACTORS AND NEW VIEWS OF SAFETY APPLIED TO MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW. Economic and Social Development: Book of Proceedings, 47-56.

Study link: https://www.esd-conference.com/upload/book_of_proceedings/Book_of_Proceedings_esdRioDeJaneiro2024_Online.pdf#page=52

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