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This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected with safety. It analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors such as nuclear power, chemical processing, and transport with those in the finance and healthcare sectors.
The relationship between regulating and regulated entities is important in ensuring that safety is not subordinated to other concerns and in maintaining public confidence. As a result, the brief addresses various pressures and trade-offs inherent in that relationship, trade-offs between such considerations as:
cost of the oversight activity and its effectiveness; regulator independence and its level of competency and understanding of the risks involved; ability to provide advice on meeting regulatory goals and being able to criticize decisions made; and effectiveness and intrusion in operational activities. The contributors show how, over time, a more horizontal or "decentred" approach to regulatory oversight has appeared, with a larger degree of delegation of certain decisions to industry and a greater role for a range of third parties such as certification bodies, auditors, insurers, industry associations and NGOs.
This book is of interest to academics working in the fields of safety science or organizational management and to practitioners, regulators and policy-makers concerned with health and safety and critical infrastructure.
List of contents
1. The unfolding regulator-regulatee relationship.- 2. The Risk of Risk Regulation: A Thirty-Year LSE Perspective.- 3. The role of third parties in regulatory systems - examples from financial services regulation.- 4. The Healthcare Regulatory Ecosystem.- 5. The tripartite-system - a key in polycentric risk governance: Lessons from Norwegian offshore industry.- 6. The power of dialogue - the regulator-regulatee relationship in the Norwegian oil and gas industry.- 7. Recognizing the Social Nature of Regulatory Compliance and Focusing on Front-line Interactions.- 8. Standards, certification, and accreditation: indispensable tools for European safety regulations?.- 9. Auditism. Symptoms, safety consequences, causes, and cure.- 10. Rule Design: Defining the Regulator-Regulatee Relationship.- 11. Responsive Regulation, Trust and Intrinsic Motivation within the Nuclear Industry: Impacts of a Safety Culture Tool.- 12. The regulator, the regulatee, and the end of the world as we knewit.
About the author
Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a research director (Ph.D., Mines de Paris) at INERIS, the French national institute for environmental safety. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems, with an empirical, theoretical, historical, visual, and epistemological orientation. He has authored several books and numerous journal articles on safety. He is an associate editor of the journal Safety Science.
Benoit Journé is a professor of Strategic Management and Organization Sciences at Nantes University (Institute of Business Administration), France. He is a member of the LEMNA research lab, where he carries out qualitative research in the domain of organizational reliability and resilience, with a focus on nuclear safety. He founded a research chair in partnership with the French nuclear industry and led a major post-Fukushima research project. His research has been published in various journals.
