New technologies & work
An exercise in long-range scientific inquiry
Since 1983, an international, interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners have been meeting and working together each year in order to develop concepts and methods to address individual, organizational and societal risks created by technological development. Learn more…
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- September 2022: the topic of the 2022 workshop is Meeting the challenges of climate change and safety in high-risk industries
- September 2021: the topic of the 2021 workshop is Safety in a digital age: old and new problems.
Liability, insurance and safety management
How do liability laws and the activity of the insurance industry impact firms’ safety management? What are the interactions with safety regulations?
Control and accountability in highly automated systems
The match between control over systems and accountability for system functioning needs to be reconsidered and redefined. Given limits of control at the operational level, accountability will have to shift away from frontline staff to operating organizations and system designers.
How desirable and avoidable is proceduralization of safety?
The exclusive and intensive use of procedures today can be seen as a threat to new progress in safety.
Safety of high-technology systems
Workshops have covered a wide range of topics including human error, accident investigation, training, distributed decision-making and management. While the original activities of NeTWork began with a wide coverage of sub-themes, recent work has focused more specifically on a theme of great scientific and social significance: the safety of high technology systems and the role of human contribution to either failure or resilience of high-hazard systems.
Knowledge transfer to stakeholders
In order to facilitate dissemination of the knowledge produced by NeTWork activities to the academic community and to decision-makers, each workshop has led to the publication of either a book or a special issue of an academic journal.