ABSTRACT
New modes and rules of risk regulation often emerge as a response to disasters or major industrial accidents within hazardous industries. The term resilience engineering, representing a new way of thinking about safety, builds on resilience as the power or ability to return to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched. A risk regulatory system has to fit into elements and dimensions characterising a production system. A procedure for standard-setting by applying a hierarchy of norms is an important element in the illustrated mechanism. The practical implementation of legal standards has to be developed within the particular professional community in accordance with their prevalent use, professional judgments, and prevailing values and attitudes in society. Effective and safe production is enhanced by introducing rules, procedures and routines to guide individual and organisational activities and behaviour. By implementing procedures, technical processes, technology development and human activities and practices become more predictable and safer.
