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SUMMARY:Designing Organisational High-Reliability? Aviation\, healthcare a
 nd complex safety-critical systems - Carl Macrae\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20170125T110000Z
DTEND:20170125T120000Z
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CONTACT:Mari Huhtala
DESCRIPTION:Can safe organisations be designed? From airlines to banks\, a
 nd from hospitals to power plants\, modern economies depend on a range of 
 complex systems that can cause catastrophic harm when they fail. Designing
  organisations that can handle failure gracefully\, and respond resilientl
 y to disruptions\, is therefore one of the primary objectives in many safe
 ty-critical industries. Drawing on research in aviation and healthcare\, t
 his presentation will explore some of the practical strategies that are us
 ed in reliability-seeking organisations to transform moments of risk into 
 sources of resilience. These practical strategies\, and the institutional 
 arrangements that support them\, indicate that high reliability organisati
 ons focus considerable resources on continually reflecting on\, and redesi
 gning\, organisational practice itself. These findings will be used to con
 sider the implications for embedding practical processes of organisational
  design in risk management systems. 
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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