RESOH : Research in Safety, Organization, Humans - Publications

The brief provides practical recommendations on how best to manage arrangements that target short-term profitability and also maintain excellence in long-term safety outcomes. The brief is a source of advice for organisations on how to maximise the benefits and minimise long-term system reliability issues that can be introduced by contracting and outsourcing, rather than assuming it to be a wholly negative or positive practice.

Contracting and Safety includes qualitative, empirical studies focusing on high-reliability organisation. As such, this brief provides a rich picture of the experience of working in complex supply chains. It will be of interest to researchers in industrial safety, as well as safety professionals and project managers within engineering industries.

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Enquêter dans le nucléaire
Sophie Bretesché, Stéphanie Tillement, Bénédicte Geffroy, Benoît Journé (dir.)
Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, coll. « Le sens social », 2022, 402 p.
ISBN : 978-2-7535-8312-2.

​     This book examines nuclear energy not just in terms of the controversies it stirs up, but as a social fact embodied in activities, organizations, territories and words. This approach, based on different forms of inquiry, aims to open the way to a renewed conception of public debate on nuclear issues. By focusing on the mundane phenomena associated with nuclear power, and not just on moments of crisis, the authors puts into perspective the relationship between a technology and the contexts in which it is embedded. The objects of research and the means of investigation explore five main themes: the socio-historical dimension of nuclear power, collective action, distributed organizations, territories and nuclear words.

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