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Formal Incident Reporting System: Putting Solidarity on Trial
Rossignol, Nicolas; Claisse, Frédéric
2014Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
 

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Keywords :
Vulnerability; Solidarity
Abstract :
[en] The practice of “incident reporting” is commonly recognized as an effective mean to reduce the vulnerability of “at risk” socio-technical systems (e.g. nuclear plants, large industrial facilities or hospitals), as it allow the concerned community to learn from past incidents. Indeed, it is assumed that collective resilience will be upgraded via the use of institutionalized Incident Reporting System (IRS), enabling the organization to improve the quality of the actions and reactions in case of deviation from normality, or to prevent such deviation. Yet, inductive analysis of what happens with those IRS in practice are not numerous. In this paper, we address this gap and display the results of semi-structured interviews conducted in a nuclear facility. During those interviews, participants were also requested to produce a mind map of the IRS they are concerned with. As a result, we show that safety is a matter of solidarities that are situated in specific contexts. To that regard, incident reporting is a practice of decomposition and recomposition of trusts and thus of solidarities. Reporting incidents consists in putting solidarity on trial, as the collective safety was threatened. We show that such open trial is often avoided because questioning solidarities is not always desirable in order to allow the group to continue functioning. Overall, we argue that informal reporting behaviors can also contribute to upgrade collective resilience without putting solidarities on trial.
Research center :
Spiral
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Rossignol, Nicolas ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de science politique > Anal. et éval. des politiques publ.-Méthod. de sc. politique
Claisse, Frédéric ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de droit > Département de droit
Language :
English
Title :
Formal Incident Reporting System: Putting Solidarity on Trial
Publication date :
September 2014
Event name :
Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Event place :
Torun, Poland
Event date :
from 17-09-2014 to 19-09-2014
Audience :
International
Funders :
GDF Suez [FR]
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