Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks
Description
This open access brief-in-two-volumes provides a global overview of the many ways in which today's safety management and governance of high-risk industries may be destabilized in an evolving and rapidly transforming world. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional perimeter of safety management and governance, it considers industrial safety within a wider societal, technological, (geo)political, economic and environmental context to explore future challenges in the coupling of safety and its ecosystem and how to live with them.
This first volume analyzes the current situation as well as the destabilizations now underway and predicted to come in the future and suggests new frames of reference for this changing world, including:
- the social contract,
- AI realism and
- the regulatory framework.
The second volume focuses on challenges at the organizational level before providing illustrations of ways forward implemented in various areas.
In considering the complexity and uncertainty of the topic, the two volumes together rely on the principle of requisite variety to provide contrasting and complementary views by gathering insights on the future of safety from many international academics.
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Persons
Corinne Bieder is Head of the Safety management research program at ENAC (the French Civil Aviation University). She has worked and conducted research in safety management in a variety of high-risk industries for many years. She has published a number of papers and books on safety management and is a member of the international NeTWork think tank addressing safety from a multidisciplinary perspective. After being a member of its strategic analysis group, she took up the position of scientific director at FonCSI (Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture) in 2024.
Hervé Laroche is Emeritus Professor in the Management department at ESCP Business School. His research concerns decision-making processes in organizations, organizational reliability, and organizational secrecy. It has been published in Management, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, etc. He has been a member of FonCSI's strategic analysis group since 2014.
Caroline Kamaté holds a Ph.D. in immunology. She has post-doctoral experience in academy (University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands) and in industry (Sanofi-Aventis, France). Her interest for scientific communication led her to join FonCSI in 2007 where she is involved in the management of research programmes and dissemination of results.
Content
Public Participation in the Governance of Risks Associated with Industrial Activities: The New Injunction, Decoy Breakthrough?.- Part I: Models and Cases: Accounting for Context and Complexity.- Public Participation and the Democratic Imaginaries: Why Public Participation May Not Yield the Benefits Expected.- Decision-Making in Projects Involving Public Participation: Regulating the Mess. The Governance of Industrial and Community Risk.- Broadening the Scope of industrial Risk Assessment and Management.- Total Energies Approach to Stakeholder Engagement.- Part II: Approaches for Developing and Managing Public Participation.- Social Acceptability of Industrial Risk: From the Right to Know ot the Duty to Engage.- Public Participation in the Management of Risk from Industrial Facilities.- Participatory Processes for Industrial Risk Management: Enablers, Barriers and Limitations.- Engaging Citizens in Dialogue on Technoscience: An Endogenous Approach.- Another Kind of Participation is Possible: The Case of the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety.- Conclusion.