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Contracting and Safety : Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hayes, Jan.
Other Authors: Tillement, Stéphanie.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 Outsourcing and Safety-An Introduction
  • 1.1 Why Outsourcing and Safety?
  • 1.2 Research Approach
  • 1.3 The Structure of the Book
  • References
  • 2 Contracting and Safety: Lessons from Observing an Outsourcing Process "in the Making"
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Outsourcing, Contracting Out and Safe Industrial Performance
  • 2.3 The Trajectory of an Outsourcing Process in a Nuclear Plant
  • 2.3.1 The Issue of Defining Precisely the Outsourced Activity from the Beginning
  • 2.3.2 The Trickle-Down Effects of Outsourcing on Safe Industrial Performance
  • 2.4 Conclusion: Lessons Learned
  • 2.4.1 Lesson 1: A Correct Assessment of the Nature of an Activity Before Outsourcing Is Essential
  • 2.4.2 Lesson 2: Hidden Temporalities and Embracing Distant Past and Future Are Key in the Contracting-Out Process
  • 2.4.3 Lesson 3: Contracting Out Is a Dynamic Process, Which Requires Heedful Interactions Between Principal and Contractor in the Long Term
  • References
  • 3 Workload Planning Management of Maintenance Activities in Nuclear Power Plants: Compensation Mechanisms at the Contractor Interface
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Maintenance Workload Planning at the Contractor Interface
  • 3.2.1 Anticipation and Adaptation
  • 3.2.2 Effects of Contracting
  • 3.3 Research Context, Method and Data
  • 3.4 Findings and Analysis
  • 3.4.1 Preparing for Maintenance Outages
  • 3.4.2 Implementation of Provisions Related to Workload Planning
  • 3.4.3 Restoring the Workload-Resource Balance
  • 3.4.4 Contractor Adaptability
  • 3.5 Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • 4 Inter-organisational Collaboration for the Safety of Railway Vehicles: A Japanese Case
  • 4.1 A Serious Incident
  • 4.2 The MAIS Approach
  • 4.3 Inter-organisational Relations and Efforts to Shape Railway Vehicle Safety in Japan
  • 4.4 Analysis.
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Engaged Scholarship for Exploring Applicability of Relational Contracting to Nuclear Industry Projects
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Contractual Approaches
  • 5.2.1 Traditional Contractual Approaches in the Nuclear Industry
  • 5.2.2 Project Alliancing Approach
  • 5.2.3 A Legal Perspective to Relational Contracting
  • 5.3 Method
  • 5.4 Results
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 Contracting Qualities that Challenge Reliability: A Case of the Utility Sector
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Organising for Process Reliability
  • 6.3 Contracting Qualities and Reliability in Utility Construction
  • 6.3.1 Specialisation
  • 6.3.2 Transience
  • 6.3.3 Price Competition
  • 6.4 Unintended, Unanticipated Events Occur
  • 6.5 Recommendations
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 7 Managing Workplace Safety in the Temporary Organisation-Theoretical and Practical Challenges Associated with Large Construction Projects
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Action-Based Theory of Temporary Organising
  • 7.3 Current Safety Management Approaches in Large Construction Projects and Some Limitations
  • 7.4 Safety and the Temporary Organising of Construction Projects
  • 7.4.1 Time in Large Construction Projects
  • 7.4.2 Tasks in Large Construction Projects
  • 7.4.3 Teams in Large Construction Projects
  • 7.4.4 Transition in Large Construction Projects
  • 7.5 Taking Account of Temporary Organising Towards an Action-Based Approach to Workplace Safety
  • References
  • 8 When the Project Ends and Operations Begin: Ensuring Safety During Commissioning Through Boundary Work
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Outsourcing, Projects and Safety
  • 8.3 A Safety-Critical Project: Building and Operating a New Facility at NucStor Plant
  • 8.4 Challenges Encountered in the Commissioning Phase
  • 8.5 Boundary Work for Improved Reliability
  • 8.6 Discussion and Conclusion
  • References.
  • 9 Outsourcing Risk Governance: Using Consultants to Deliver Regulatory Functions
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Effective Regulation and Effective Regulators
  • 9.3 Outsourcing of Regulatory Functions
  • 9.4 Economic and Technical Regulation of Gas Supply
  • 9.5 Method
  • 9.6 Findings
  • 9.7 Discussion
  • 9.8 Conclusion
  • References
  • 10 Outsourcing in Theory and Practice: Insights from Nuclear Risk Governance
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Organisational Hypocrisy: A Definition and Two Gaps
  • 10.3 Situated Organisational Hypocrisy and Outsourcing
  • 10.4 Research Settings and Cases
  • 10.5 Data Collection and Analysis
  • 10.6 Organisational Hypocrisy in Action
  • 10.7 Normal Organisational Hypocrisy and Outsourcing
  • References
  • 11 Outsourced Enforcement: Improving the Public Accountability of Building Inspectors
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Effective Regulation and Effective Regulators
  • 11.3 Public Accountability
  • 11.4 Grenfell Tower
  • 11.5 Incidents in the Australian Building Sector
  • 11.6 Discussion
  • 11.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 12 Implications for Safe Outsourcing
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 The Problem of Fragmentation
  • 12.3 Transience and Temporality
  • 12.4 Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Advancing Safety Theory
  • References.

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