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Safety Decision-Making in Academia

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This paper illustrates the challenges of safety management in Academia, which are difficult to overcome using conventional methods of risk management. The positive aspects and disadvantages of the risk management tools specifically designed for the laboratory collection are addressed. We propose a different approach to hazard detection that can ease the burden for Academia safety experts of tedious time-consuming risk assessment. Based on the observations of Academia’s safety management, we are attempting to build a semi-quantitative risk analysis model that will conform to the concept of safety-II. This paper suggests an approach that allows to integrate this model into human oriented performance driven decision making.

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  1. Group of Physical and Chemical Safety, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 6, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Anastasia Kalugina & Thierry Meyer

  2. Safety Competence Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 6, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Thierry Meyer

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    Ronald L. Boring

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Kalugina, A., Meyer, T. (2020). Safety Decision-Making in Academia. In: Arezes, P., Boring, R. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50946-0_2

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