Constructing risk and safety in technological practice

Author(s)

• Summerton, Jane
• Berner, Boel

Bibliographic Information

Constructing risk and safety in technological practice

edited by Jane Summerton and Boel Berner

（Routledge advances in sociology, 4）

Routledge, 2003

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations. With contributions from leading scholars from Europe and the USA, it presents original theoretical discussions, linked to detailed empirical case studies.

Table of Contents

Jane Summerton and Boel Berner Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice: An Introduction Part I: Interpreting Accidents Introductory Comments 1. Judith Green The Ultimate Challenge for Risk Technologies: Controlling the Accidental 2. Joerg Potthast Narratives of Trust in Constructing Risk and Danger: Interpretations of the Swissair 111 Crash 3. Sidney W. A. Dekker Re-situating Your Data: Understanding the Human Contribution to Accidents Part II: Defining Risks Introductory Comments 4. Jane Summerton 'Talking Diesel': Negotiating and Contesting Environmental Risks of Automobility in Sweden 5. Andrew Koehler Defining Risk and Safety in a High Security Organization: 'Bunkering' at the Los Alamos Plutonium Handling Facility Part III: Constructing Safety Introductory Comments 6. Gene I. Rochlin Safety as a Social Construct: The Problem(atique) of Agency 7. Johan M. Sanne Creating Trust and Achieving Safety in Air Traffic Control 8. Sabrina Thelander The Social Construction of Safety in the Face of Fear and Distrust: The Case of Cardiac Intensive Care 9. Marianne Doeoes and Tomas Backstroem Constructing Workplace Safety through Control and Learning: Conflict or Compatibility?

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Details

• NCID: BA59955198
• ISBN:
  • 0415285712
• LCCN: 2000268173
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 200 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 302.12
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Industrial safety
  • LCSH : Risk management
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA52621092