Contracting and Safety Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries /
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Safety Management,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.