International Forum on Industrial Safety: Programme

Monday July 7th 2008

18:00 – 20:00 Registration and welcome reception

Tuesday 8th July 2008

8:00 9:00 Registration
9:00  9:30 Opening session
Claude GILBERT, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Gilles MOTET, Fondation pour une Culture de Sécurité Industrielle (FonCSI)
9:30  10:30 Evolution of the cohabitation between high risk plants and populations
Vincent LAFLECHE, Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS)
10:30  12:00 Risk management: the management of progress
Gilles PELSY, ACS Partners
12:00  13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Integrated management of risks arising from the development and use of new technologies
Aleksandar JOVANOVIC (EU-VRi, Stuttgart)
14:30 – 16:30 Are safety regulations efficient or counterproductive?
  followed by a Forum
Claude FRANTZEN
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18:00 System design centred on users
Guy BOY, European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO)

Wednesday July 9th 2008


9:00  10:00
Is Cost-Benefit Analysis a good tool to assess safety treatment efficiency?

In developed economies it is becoming increasingly common practice to reply upon the findings of social cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to inform investment and regulatory decisions that will affect the health and safety of members of the public or those in the workplace.  However, application of CBA in the context of health and safety raises a number of difficult conceptual and practical problems.  For example, is it ethically defensible to seek to place a monetary value on the safety of human life?  If such monetary values are to form the basis of cost-benefit analysis in the health and safety context, how are they to be defined and estimated?  Should the values of safety applied in CBA be set so as to vary with the age or current health state or other personal characteristics of those who will be affected by a safety improvement?  And so on.  These and related issues will constitute the principal focus of this presentation.

Michael JONES-LEE, Newcastle University
10:00 – 11:00 Forum on the cost of safety
Nicolas TREICH, Toulouse School of Economics (INRA – LERNA)
11:00 – 12:30 Risk identification: from causes to resonance
Erik HOLLNAGEL, Ecole des Mines de Paris
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Resilience and safety
Eric RIGAUD, Ecole des Mines de Paris
15:00 – 16:00 Human factors of safety: principles and practices
François DANIELLOU, University of Bordeaux
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:30 What relationships between risk, technology and organisation?

Research on the reliability of high-risk systems shows that there are failures in organisations that arise from the difficulties that engineers and technicians have in designing organisations in relation to the technology used. This presentation deals with the design process as a social, contingent and contextual construction. An analysis of the contribution of actors engaged in the modification of high-risk chemical installations shows that their anticipation of the organisation in relation to the technical systems is partial. The social and dynamic perspective adopted reveals the strengths and weaknesses of organisation and design practices in order to take account of the major professional risks.  Moreover it questions the human and socio-economic costs of design in highly regulated industries where demands of profitability and competitiveness are additional to the requirements for risk management.

Cynthia COLMELLERE, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
17:30 – 18:30 Role of occupation as a collective instrument for industrial safety

In this new century, work and the workplace impose social stresses on workers, which will impact future generations. The talk  will examine the potential for social psychology to assist the individual and collective activities that are needed to confront these new stresses. It will provide an overview of the historical, theoretical, methodological and technical ressources that have been developed by the field of work psychology, with respect to the capacity of subjects to act on and modify their work environment. The talk will reexamine the notion of occupation in this light.
Yves CLOT, Centre National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM)
20:00 Dinner and forum: What balance between constrained safety and managed safety?
René AMALBERTI, Haute Autorité de Santé

Thursday July 10th 2008


9:00 – 10:30 Safety engineering: a rational approach to control system failures
Enrico ZIO, Politecnico di Milano
10:30 – 11:30 Who are the experts?
Pierre BENOIT-JOLY, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 14:00 Decision-making in the presence of uncertainty
Christian GOLLIER, Toulouse School of Economics
14:00 – 15:00 Forum on uncertainty
Laurent MAGNE Electricité de France (EDF)
Gilles MOTET, Fondation pour une Culture de Sécurité Industrielle (FonCSI)
15:00 – 15:30 Closing session and announcement of the 2008 FonCSI Call for Proposals
Laurent MAGNE, Electricité de France (EDF)
Gilles MOTET, Fondation pour une Culture de Sécurité Industrielle (FonCSI)





The first International Forum on Industrial Safety is organized in collaboration with:
The 2009 edition of the Forum will be organized in Milano, Italy by the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano.  Fondazione Politecnico di Milano European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety







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