This book offers a new perspective to uncover the keys to accident and disaster avoidance. Created with a working group, it presents research and understanding on the root causes of disasters. Indeed, beyond technical failures, human beings are at the heart of organizations and, through the exchange of data and information, influential relationships inevitably emerge such as conflicts of interest and cooperation.
With examples selected from multiple accidents and disasters, this book demonstrates that analyzing the causal chain that leads to an accident is not sufficient if we wish to truly understand it. The role of operational and managerial actors and the complexities they generate are also explored.
Cindynics, The Science of Danger helps readers develop their ability to identify gaps, deficits, dissonances, disjunctions, degenerations and blockages, which are the real dangers in inevitably evolving activity situations. With an easily-understandable approach, this book offers new perspectives in several fields (health, crisis management and conflict resolution).
Author(s): Guy Planchette
Series: Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics Series: Reliability of Multiphysical Systems Set, 11
Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 205
City: London
Cover
Half-Title Page
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Presentation of the Institut pour la Maîtrise des Risques (French Institute for Risk Management)
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Understanding Cindynics
1.1. The approach
1.2. The method
1.3. The tools
1.4. Processes
Chapter 2. The Usefulness of the Cindynics Approach and Method
2.1. The situation, the founding concept of cindynics
2.2. Characterizing an activity situation
2.3. Qualifying a dangerous situation within an activity situation
2.3.1. Notion of a dangerous situation
2.3.2. Qualifying the dangerousness of a situation
Chapter 3. The Usefulness of Cindynics Tools
3.1. Qualification grid for risk sources that are not easily identifiable
3.2. Describing this type of risk source
3.2.1. At the global organization level
3.2.2. At the level of stakeholder groups
3.2.3. At the level of the individual actor
Chapter 4. Reducing Risk Sources
Chapter 5. A Comparative View Between Dependability and Cindynics
5.1. Introduction
5.1.1. Dependability
5.1.2. The cindynics approach
5.1.3. Dependability and cindynics seem to ignore or even compete with each other
5.2. What is a complex system?
5.3. Dependability approach – its strengths and limitations
5.3.1. The scope of dependability
5.3.2. Description of the system and its components
5.3.3. Functional analysis
5.3.4. Process hazard analysis
5.3.5. Technological choices
5.3.6. Identification of failures – analyzing risks
5.3.7. Strengths and limitations of the approach
5.4. The cindynics approach
5.4.1. The cindynic situation and its scope
5.4.2. Strengths and limitations of the approach
5.5. Conflict or complementarity of the two approaches
5.6. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Perspectives
Conclusion
Examples of Approaches
Appendix 1. Current Risk Management and its Shortcomings
Appendix 2. Notions of Interaction and Complexity
Appendix 3. The Grounded Theorization Method
Appendix 4. Notions of Quantum Theory
Appendix 5. Summary of CSDs
Appendix 6. Archeocindynic Study
Appendix 7. Bhopal Study
Appendix 8. More Information About Bhopal
Appendix 9. Collection of Information on the Queen Mary II Gangway Accident
Appendix 10. Queen Mary Accident Cause Tree
Appendix 11. Collection of Information on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Accident
Appendix 12. Synthesis Note of the Work of IMdR–AFPCN: “Vulnerability of Networks and Natural Disasters”
Appendix 13. The New Cindynics Concepts Training Course
Postface
Glossary
References
Index
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