Centro de Documentación de Fundación MAPFRE - The Paradox of bureaucratic risk control

Notes: Rules clearly play an integral role in maintaining the safety of an industrial workplace; but are formal rules and procedures effective in all dangerous situations? Do workers have to choose between production targets and safety? In every organization there are three main tipes of hidden rules: colleagues tend to protect each other to make impossible for management to discover the causes of an incident in case of drafting; it is not considered very wise to unplease ones superior; and, related to safety itself, rules considered useless and senseless are violated but there's still the concern of work danger, so employees have their own informal rules to guarantee each others' safetyRelated records: En: Risk Management. - New York : The Risk and Insurance Management Society. - Vol. 47, nº 2 February 2000; p. 19-22Materia / lugar / evento: Seguridad e higiene en el trabajo Productividad Normas de seguridad Cultura organizativa Seguridad industrial Gestión de la seguridad Otros autores: Risk and Insurance Management Society
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