ABSTRACT
This chapter describes various faces of safety and questions the conditions of development of a form of safety that includes the co-design of rules, their appropriation, their use and the adaptations that are necessary in real-life situations. The literature in the social sciences – ergonomics, sociology, psychology, etc. – has emphasized the complexity of this issue, which cannot be simply reduced to a static articulation between, on the one hand, the production of formal rules, and on the other hand, the
Regulated safety and managed safety: From the addition to the articulation of safeties ...................................................................................... 96
Regulated safety and managed safety...................................................... 96 Safety in action and effective safety.......................................................... 97
The normative approach and the adaptive approach ................................. 98 The adaptive approach and forms of safety in action .............................. 100
Rules are generic and must be particularized ....................................... 100 Rules may not cover some of the cases .................................................. 101 Technical operation is deficient or the rules are not adhered to by all workers .................................................................................................. 102 Applying the rule is viewed as counterproductive .............................. 103
The construction of safety ............................................................................. 104 The integrated design of rules ................................................................. 104 The work of all in that of every worker ................................................. 105 Collective decision-making ...................................................................... 105 Modes of management that are open to an adaptive approach ......... 106
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use that is made – or not made – of these rules (Amalberti, 2007; Bourrier, 2011; Daniellou, 2012; Dien, 1998). It is useful, at this point, to take into account the adaptive, dynamic and developmental character of safety, in order to continue to make progress in this field.
