TY  - CHAP
AU  - Rundmo, Torbjørn
AB  - "An unforeseen event may be defined as something that happens suddenly  and unexpectedly. Such events are seldom the result of an organisation’s operational  planning, but they can be side-effects of such planning. An unforeseen event may  have either positive or negative consequences. This chapter aims to discuss if it is  possible  to prevent unforeseen events. The major focus is on analysis and prevention  of unforeseen events with negative consequences, such as accidents, catastrophes  and acts of terror. Such events often take place in complex systems, and failures of  appropriate organisational interaction and communication among participants  with complementary competence in such systems may contribute to unforeseen  events. Risk-analysis methods and tools based on energy-barrier models, causal sequence  and process models, as well as information-processing models are presented  and their applicability to the prevention of unforeseen events is discussed. This also  includes the Bow-tie approach, as well as other approaches which take into consideration  organisational factors and social interaction (samhandling). The conclusion  is that unforeseen events can be prevented. However, in the aftermath of the implementation  of safety and security measures, it is not possible to know which events  they prevented, or to obtain knowledge about their efficiency. An additional strategy  for prevention of unforeseen events with negative consequences is proposed."
DO  - 10.23865/noasp.36.ch3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1001644
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1076723288
KW  - Samhandling
KW  - interaction
KW  - emergency-preparedness
KW  - training
KW  - risk analysis
KW  - organisational learning
KW  - unforeseen
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4c9873f7-707d-43e2-9111-f321bdb74a62/Interaction_ch3.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28318
PB  - Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing)
PP  - Oslo
PY  - 2018
TI  - Chapter 3 Is It Possible to Prevent Unforeseen Events?null
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