Webinar with Jean-Christophe Le Coze on Post Normal Accidents

What?

IPS (Swedish Process Safety Association) and SÄKU (The Swedish Safety Culture Network) are happy to welcome back the well-renowned French safety researcher Jean-Christophe Le Coze to another exclusive webinar!

Read more by clicking on "More info" below.

During this 2-hour session, Jean-Christophe will make a presentation in two parts based around his book “Post Normal Accident. Revisiting Perrow’s classic” (2020). In these two parts he will dissect the last three decades of safety research made on high-risk systems/organisations and also look at where we are now. The presentation will have a certain emphasis on Charles Perrow's safety classic "Normal Accidents" (1984). 

The structure of the presentation will be as follows:

Part 1

• Historicising safety

- Safety as a product of epochs

- Safety and our contemporary world

• Thinking safety with the help of sociology

- Turner, Perrow, Vaughan, Hopkins

• Why does Perrow still matter, 40 years after Normal Accidents, published in 1984?

- Two theses in one book

- An influential sociological analysis

- A complementary author: Hopkins

Part 2

• Post Normal Accidents in a nutshell: a new mindset for a new world

- Why "Post" in Post NA?

-  Key categories of Post NA…with and beyond Perrow & Hopkins

• Thinking “safety as strategy”

- Errors from the top

- Case studies: from BP to Boeing...

•  Safety-critical systems and globalisation

- Global Value Chains: Network failure accidents

- Case studies (continued): from BP to Boeing…

•  Global risks and safety

- Systemic & existential risks

- Case study: From Fukushima Daïchi to Covid-19…

The event will be held in English.

Warm welcome and hope to see you there!

On May 17 the webinar will be followed up by a workshop based on the "safety as strategy"-topic from the presentation. The workshop will be interactive and go into more depth in this topic where participants will be asked to read a case study in advance. If you are interested in the workshop, please read more and register HERE. 

About Jean-Christophe Le Coze

Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a well-renowned safety researcher (PhD, Mines ParisTech) at INERIS, the French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems with empirical, conceptual, practical, historical, visual and epistemological perspectives. He is the editor of the book “Safety Science Research. Evolution, Challenges and New Directions” (2019) and author of “Post Normal Accident. Revisiting Perrow’s classic” (2020)

When

Date: May 3

Time:  9.00 - 11.00 AM, Central European Time (CET)

Plattform: MS Teams

Presentation in two parts, time for break, discussions/questions.

Registration and fee

Register by using the buttom "Register!" above or below.

For SÄKU Members: Choose the free “SÄKU member ticket” option when registering and checking out. 

The event is free of charge for members of Säkerhetskulturnätverket (SÄKU).

For Non SÄKU Members: Choose the “Non SÄKU member ticket” option when registering and checking out. 

The webinar is open to non-SÄKU members. For non-SÄKU members the ticket fee is 1 500 SEK plus VAT per attendee. Refunding is possible up until the last day before the event. If you don't attend but haven't let us know one day prior to the event, no refund is possible.

Getting the link to the webinar

After the registration a Teams-invitation will be sent to you (the same day or a few days later). In a few days prior to the event, the link will also be sent to you in an email. If you can’t attend the event after you've registered, please get in touch.

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