Organisational preconditions

Stave, C. and Tomer, M. 2007. Exploring the organisational preconditions for occupational accidents in food industry A quahtative approach. Safety Science, 45(3), 355-71. doi 10.1016/j.ssci.2006.07.001. 

As a precondition for notification of the recognised third party organisations the Member States shall apply the same criteria as for notified bodies and the Commission shall, as in the case of notified bodies, publish the references of theses organisations in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 

A hypercycle is a more complex organisation form. Its precondition is the presence of several RNA quasi-species which are able to amalgamate chemically with certain proteins (enzymes or their precursors). If such a protein is linked to a quasi-species, the resulting duo favours the replication of a second quasispecies. According to Dyson, the linked populations get stuck in a stable equilibrium. Problems occur at this level Any theory on the origin of replication has the central problem that the replication process must occur perfectly in order to ensure survival . If there are replication errors, these will increase from generation to generation, until the system collapses the error catastrophe has then occurred ... 

Kauffman also considers that autocatalytic reactions are a necessary precondition for biogenesis processes, as they can wind themselves up via self-amplifying feedback processes until a critical boundary has been reached. The next step would then be the transition from autocatalysis to self-organisation, similar to the transition from unstructured water to convection cells (the Benard instability) (Davies, 2000). 

The Requirements Management System is a necessary precondition for the organisation, management, coordination, inspection and evaluation of the extensive project, both from the viewpoint of the contractor and customer, as well as from the viewpoint of the national regulatory body. It is a tool for systematic identification, requirement structuring, communication, control, monitoring and verification of user... 

Burnett, S., Berm, J., Pinto, A. et al. (2010) Organisational readiness exploring the preconditions for success in organisation-wide patient safety improvement programmes. Quality and Safety in Health Care (in press). 

Refers to how the organisation addresses long-term preconditions for work (workforce availability, environment, investments), sets long-term goals for development and guarantees financial viability. ... 

A legal situation recognising organised composting as one means of recycling and a standardised testing of the degradation behaviour are important preconditions for their successful development. 

The synthesis over time is more difficult to explain, but no less essential. In many kinds of activities - probably in all -synchronisation is important. This certainly goes for industries where safety (whether as Safety-I or as Safety-II) is a concern it goes for services for communication for production - not least if it is lean and so on. Synchronisation is achieved by organising the various productive processes to avoid delays (outputs arriving too early or too late), to ensure a better use of the resources (for instance, doing things in parallel so that the same preconditions do not have to be established twice), to coordinate transportation... 

In aviation, the taxonomy called Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) has been established see Shappell Wiegmann (2000), to understand accidents based on several factors than mere human error. The HFACS taxonomy are based on the Swiss Cheese Model from Reason (1997), looking at accidents as unsafe acts based on preconditions, unsafe conditions and organisational influences, in order to avoid blaming the human element. However, the HFACS method has no exploration of resilience, and should be extended to cover resilient acts, based on preconditions of resilience, resilient conditions and High Reliable Organisational influences. 

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