Use of safety barriers in operational safety decision making

Hayes, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2011.10.002

Cited by 37 publications

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“…Findings show that there was not any paper about definition of middle management in the most safety-related journals such as Safety Science, Accident Analysis &prevention and Journal of Safety Research; however, there were few articles regarding to the role of middle management in safety journals [7,18,26,29,37,38,39].…”

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Who is a Middle Manager: A literature Review

Rezvani¹

2017

IJFBMS

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Purpose -The purpose of research is to provide an overview of the researches on the definition of middle management and the roles of middle management in organisations and safety. Design/methodology/approach -Literature review Findings -The literature review revealed that the lack of consistency in a holistic typology of middle management and their roles are evident. All authors agree that this intermediate management group is between top level and lower level management which is very broad definition. In addition, middle management group has been distinguished from other managerial groups by three main criteria namely function, the context of the organisation and the researchers tendency. Two prominent tendencies in researches on middle management were first the strategic roles of middle management and the second either the significant contribution of middle management in the management of change or their dysfunctional roles in changes within organisations. There is a considerable overlap between elements of middle management roles, and the extent of the roles depends on the context of the organisation, time, and attitudes of middle managers. A literature review revealed that middle managers implement 5 prominent roles which are strategic, administrative, leadership, decision-making and communication. Researchers were more focus on two categories which are strategic and communication and cooperation roles. While other roles particularly decision-making role of middle management even overlooked in the management domain.Research limitations/implications -Although authors tried to review literature comprehensively, the research may not involve all articles related to middle management.Originality/value -The paper contributes to the literature by highlighting the middle management identity and their multiple and crucial roles in organisations, as well as management of safety.

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Who is a Middle Manager: A literature Review

Rezvani¹

2017

IJFBMS

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“…He states that "Decision makers need rules, not numerical risk acceptance criteria, to guide their decisions". For the sharp-end decision makers, rules may act as guidance to draw a line between acceptable and non-acceptable risk taking, termed "the line in the sand" by Jan Hayes (2012). From this perspective, rules are considered safety barriers, and the integrity of such barriers is considered paramount to safe operations.…”

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Risk management in Norwegian avalanche rescue operations: Managing uncertainty, complexity, overcommitment and the long-term monitoring of accident risk

Lunde¹

2020

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“…In Hayes (2012) study of safety barriers in operational decision-making, she found that ''the idea of defining an operating envelope or a set of pre-determined and formally recorded operating limits has wide acceptance in both industry standards and safety regulation for complex process plant (i.e. pressure, composition, or number of operators.)''.…”

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Classification of risk to support decision-making in hazardous processes

Yang¹,

Haugen

2015

Safety Science

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a b s t r a c tApplication of risk assessments developed for the design phase to support decision-making in operational settings has exposed weaknesses in how risk is analysed and expressed in an operational context. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what we actually need to express when we use risk information to support various decision scenarios. We distinguish decision scenarios into strategic decisions, operational decisions, instantaneous decisions and emergency decisions. This forms a basis for discussing the different role risk and risk assessment plays in these decisions. Five categories of risk information (average risk, site-specific average risk, activity risk (activity performance risk and activity consequence risk), period risk and time-dependent action risk) are proposed and applications for different types of decisions are discussed. An example illustrates the use of the proposed risk types. The classification has novel aspects in providing a structure that should help in understanding how we need different aspects of risk and different ways of expressing risk in different situations. In addition, it improves communication among decision-makers by clarifying what aspects we are addressing when we use the term ''risk''.

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Use of safety barriers in operational safety decision making

Cited by 37 publications

References 4 publications

Who is a Middle Manager: A literature Review

Who is a Middle Manager: A literature Review

Risk management in Norwegian avalanche rescue operations: Managing uncertainty, complexity, overcommitment and the long-term monitoring of accident risk

Classification of risk to support decision-making in hazardous processes

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