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Record Nr.

UNINA9910544877803321

Autore

Hayes Jan

Titolo

Contracting and Safety : Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries / / edited by Jan Hayes, Stéphanie Tillement

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-89792-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Safety Management, , 2520-8012

Classificazione

BUS082000BUS087000SOC026000TEC032000

Altri autori (Persone)

TillementStéphanie

Disciplina

670

Soggetti

Industrial engineering

Production engineering

Economics - Sociological aspects

Production management

Industrial organization

Industrial and Production Engineering

Economic Sociology

Operations Management

Industrial Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Maintenance & Operations -- 1. Contracting and Safety: Lessons From Observing an Outsourcing Process ‘in the Making’ -- 2. Organisational Complexity and Subcontracting Management: Confronting Lessons From Accidents and From Normal Operation Safety Assessment -- 3. Inter-Organizational Collaboration for the Safety of Railway Vehicles: a Japanese Case -- Effects of Tendering on the Resilience of Critical Services -- Part II: Capital Projects and Supply Chains -- 4. Organizing for Nuclear Safety: Exploring General Applicability of Relational Contracting to Nuclear Industry Projects with Practitioners -- 5. Playing at the Margins of Notoriously Unreliable Utility Streetworks -- 6. The Fragmentation of Workplace Safety: Long-Term Challenges for Project-Based Organization of Large Construction Projects -- 7. How Outsourcing Impacts Process Safety: the Case of Nuclear Waste Storage -- Part III: Regulation and Risk Governance -- 8.



Outsourcing Risk Governance: Using Consultants to Deliver Regulatory Functions -- 9. Discussion on the Issues of Safety and Sustainability of Fragmented Systems -- 10. Outsourcing as a Way to Uphold the Scientific Method: the Case of Outsourcing of the Technical Dialogue.-11. Concluding Remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book examines the increase in outsourcing, contracting and subcontracting as ways of organising work. It explores the impact of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are linked to complex supply networks in a range of engineering industries including oil and gas, nuclear power and aviation. The brief provides practical recommendations on how best to manage arrangements that target short-term profitability and also maintain excellence in long-term safety outcomes. The brief is a source of advice for organisations on how to maximise the benefits and minimise long-term system reliability issues that can be introduced by contracting and outsourcing, rather than assuming it to be a wholly negative or positive practice. Contracting and Safety comprises qualitative, empirical studies focusing on high-reliability organisation. As such, this brief provides a rich picture of the experience of working in complexsupply chains. It will be of interest to researchers in industrial safety, as well as safety professionals and project managers within engineering industries.