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Advancing Organisational Health and Safety Management: Are We Learning the Right Lessons?

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The twenty-first century has seen many changes, together with improvements in health and safety performance in some sectors. These improvements are testimony that the combined effects of regulatory enforcement, proactive leadership and investments in safety technology are bringing in some tangible benefits overall. However; organisational accidents still occur, raising the question of whether key learnings from previous disasters are used for informing organisational health and safety management practices. This paper, based on an analysis of findings from the Mocando Well Blowout and Fukushima Disasters, seeks to explore this very research question. This paper first discusses key factors identified in reports of the above disasters, followed by an introduction to organisational learning. Safety through organisational learning is proposed as a method, and a number of suggestions made for advancing research and practice in safety management through these approaches in the general industry.

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Pillay, M. (2018). Advancing Organisational Health and Safety Management: Are We Learning the Right Lessons?. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60525-8_5

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