A test of Rasmussen's risk management framework in the food safety domain: BSE in the UK

‘Remixing Rasmussen’: The evolution of Accimaps within systemic accident analysis

“…staff, work, equipment) regarding the system's status needs to transfer up the hierarchy to inform the decisions and actions occurring at the higher levels. Without this so called 'vertical integration', systems can lose control of the processes that they are designed to control (Cassano-Piche et al, 2009). Rasmussen (1997) argues that accidents are typically 'waiting for release ' (p. 190); the stage being set by the routine work practices of various actors working within the system.…”

“…In this section we focus on two aspects of this evolution or 'remixing' process which relate to the theoretical and practical aspects of systemic accident analysis. where application of the system approach has little precedence (e.g., studies 2,4,6,7,8,10,11,21). In recent and as yet unpublished work, for example, we have used Accimaps as a means to demonstrate the complexity of accident causation in public safety (food safety) and maritime accidents (shipping collisions -Nayak and Waterson, in preparation; Murray et al, submitted).…”

‘When Food Kills’: A socio-technical systems analysis of the UK Pennington 1996 and 2005 E. coli O157 Outbreak reports

“…According to Cassano-Piche et al (2009), apart from the tragic loss of human and animal lives, it also had massive economic consequences. The association of vCJD with BSE led to loss of exports and reduced domestic demand for British beef within twelve months which amounted to a total loss of £1.15 billion.…”

Formation Mechanism and Coping Strategy of Public Emergency for Urban Sustainability: A Perspective of Risk Propagation in the Sociotechnical System

“…Risk in a sociotechnical system, which is caused by uncertainties, exists objectively, and is characterized by transitivity. Because each part of sociotechnical system relies on the others in order for it to accomplish a common goal [41], this phenomenon cannot be neglected: the parts of the system are closely related to each other, so that when one part generates risk it may inevitably affect other parts, and may even bring losses to the entire sociotechnical system if it is not subject to effective control and management. Y. J. Hu from the perspective of system theory verified that emergency risk caused by uncertainties will lead to entropy production and disorder in system, which is not conductive to sustaining the system [42].…”