Dealing with incidents

Research shows that the Dutch rulebook has grown by approximately two per cent per annum in the past thirty years (WODC 2009). Annual output of rules and regulations is relatively consistent over time (and the various ministries differ in that respect). Reactions to incidents are also only one of the possible causes of the regulatory burden. There is no evidence that the way the political and administrative system deals with incidents is the most important or most... 

Chapter 2 systematically investigate whether and how lessons have been learned from incidents and whether, and if so, how the incidents led to legislation and regulations or to other policy interventions - or if not, why not - and what the impacts have been. This would provide reference points for considering the mechanisms relevant for dealing with incidents within the political and administrative context. 

It is important to point out that the proposed control strategy allows to handle uncertainty and incidences by combining reactive and preventive approaches. A proactive treatment of uncertainty is included by means of stochastic programming. The review and update process that are required to deal with incidences and changes in random factors are performed by introducing the SC stochastic holistic model into the MPC framework. 

There is no such thing as a working environment without incidents and above all without surprises. In order to gain the maximum benefit from this approach, it is therefore necessary either to be able to stop the system and make it safe quickly (no go), or to have unambiguous procedures for dealing with incidents (specific... 

Other authors have focused their definitions of a good safety culture on the way in which the management (middle and top managanent) deals with incidents and accidents (Westrum [67], Reason [68]) by insisting on the need for an in-depth analysis some have gone even further by insisting on the sanctions that should be linked to these undesirable events, while pointing out the absolute need to maintain the system s ability to avoid judicial consequences when human error is involved—since this is necessarily involuntary—(concept of just culture [69, 70]). 

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