Discover your world
July 8th to 10th 2008, Toulouse, France
Society confronted with technological risk: What is at stake; which strategies and techniques for management and governance; how should we arbitrate between threats and opportunities?
Achieving socio-economic progress implies risk taking (new technologies, products, organizations, policies, etc.). These risks are only acceptable — or tolerable — if they are under control, seen to be under control and consented to.
The objective of the Summer School is to provide an understanding of the methods and approaches used in different disciplines, and how they can be brought together to produce solutions that are effective, efficient and durable. Experts from the areas of communication, law, economics, engineering and the social and human sciences will present the issues and approaches used in their respective disciplines, and will debate these issues that are essential to the future of our society.
Industrial safety is a transverse subject that concerns numerous scientific domains: communication, economics, engineering, law, sociology, etc. Whereas the development of efficient solutions leads to the specialization of the professionals (engineers, decision-makers, researchers, academics, etc.) working in their areas of competence, numerous societal questions relating to safety require an overall view and the cooperation of people from multiple scientific sectors. To handle such cross-cutting concerns, these specialists must speak together, starting by developing an understanding of the questions addressed by other disciplines. The International Forum on Industrial Safety aims to facilitate this discovery, by introducing the main issues and approaches offered by various disciplines and by questioning the proposed solutions.
The summer school does not aim to go into details of a particular discipline related to the management of specific risks. It shall rather provide a broad scientific culture on industrial safety. The event will be of interest to:
engineers involved in industrial activities, who wish to obtain an introduction to the multiple facets to be treated and the generic solutions that can be used to handle them,
members of the public, government officials and industrial decision-makers in order to develop their understanding of the various parameters of their arbitrations between multiple criteria,
researchers, in particular those planning of participating in multidisciplinary programs on risk management,
academics wishing to create a multidisciplinary lecture or to place their disciplinary lecture in the global context of industrial safety,
more generally, anyone interested by any of the various aspects encompassed by industrial safety science.
