Identifying risks and emergent risks across sociotechnical systems: the NETworked hazard analysis and risk management system (NET-HARMS)

Clare Dallat; Paul M Salmon; Natassia Goode

doi:10.1080/1463922X.2017.1381197

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Identifying risks and emergent risks across sociotechnical systems: the NETworked hazard analysis and risk management system (NET-HARMS)

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Identifying risks and emergent risks across sociotechnical systems: the NETworked hazard analysis and risk management system (NET-HARMS)

Clare Dallat, Paul M Salmon and Natassia Goode

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol.19(4), pp.456-482

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1463922X.2017.1381197

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Abstract

systems thinking

risk assessment

emergence

risk decision-making

risk practitioner

Accidents are a systems phenomenon and multiple methods are available to enable retrospective analysis of accidents through this lens. However, the same cannot be said for the methods available for forecasting risk and accidents. This paper describes a new systems-based risk assessment method, the NETworked hazard analysis and risk management system (NET-HARMS), that was designed to support practitioners in identifying (1) risks across overall work systems, and (2) emergent risks that are created when risks across the system interact with one another. An overview of NET-HARMS is provided and demonstrated through a case study application. An initial test of the method is provided by comparing case study outcomes (i.e. predicted risks) with accident data (i.e. actual risks) from the domain in question. Findings show that NET-HARMS is capable of forecasting systemic and emergent risks and that it could identify almost all risks that featured in the accidents in the comparison data-set.

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Title: Identifying risks and emergent risks across sociotechnical systems: the NETworked hazard analysis and risk management system (NET-HARMS)
Authors: Clare Dallat (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Paul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Natassia Goode (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol.19(4), pp.456-482
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.1080/1463922X.2017.1381197
ISSN: 1463-922X
Grants: A new complex systems approach to road trauma: Applying systems thinking to the fatal five, FT140100681, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450596402621
Output Type: Journal article

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