TY - GEN
T1 - Safety Management Complexity
T2 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, ISSE 2022
AU - Carter, Natalie
AU - Mansouri, Mo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper uses systems thinking techniques and visualizations to describe the purpose and key components of effective safety management systems. The paper identifies the elements, actors, and relationships that compose safety management systems and discusses the importance of the social, organizational, and behavioral dynamics from which safety culture emerges. A formal system model, a systemigram, will illustrate the purpose and multi-dimensionality of a safety management system and a non-linear multi-loop diagram captures the interrelations among its agents and the reinforcing and balancing forces that contribute to system dynamics. Concurrent and paradoxical attributes of safety management systems and safety culture are revealed. The paper concludes by advocating for the application of systems thinking, multidisciplinary technical rigor, strong organizational culture, and finally and perhaps most importantly, a participative approach when optimizing complex systems and system-of-systems for safety.
AB - This paper uses systems thinking techniques and visualizations to describe the purpose and key components of effective safety management systems. The paper identifies the elements, actors, and relationships that compose safety management systems and discusses the importance of the social, organizational, and behavioral dynamics from which safety culture emerges. A formal system model, a systemigram, will illustrate the purpose and multi-dimensionality of a safety management system and a non-linear multi-loop diagram captures the interrelations among its agents and the reinforcing and balancing forces that contribute to system dynamics. Concurrent and paradoxical attributes of safety management systems and safety culture are revealed. The paper concludes by advocating for the application of systems thinking, multidisciplinary technical rigor, strong organizational culture, and finally and perhaps most importantly, a participative approach when optimizing complex systems and system-of-systems for safety.
KW - multi-dimensionality
KW - safety
KW - safety culture
KW - safety management
KW - systemigram
KW - systems thinking
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSE54508.2022.10005353
DO - 10.1109/ISSE54508.2022.10005353
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85146946890
T3 - ISSE 2022 - 2022 8th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, Conference Proceedings
BT - ISSE 2022 - 2022 8th IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 24 October 2022 through 26 October 2022
ER -