Understanding the Ecological Validity of Relying Practice as a Basis for Risk Identification

摘要: Understanding the reliability of hazardous organizations and their protective systems is central to understanding risk they produce. Work on "high organization" has done much illuminate conditions in which social organization becomes reliable highly demanding conditions. But depends just as how relying entities do it does rely on. Patterns are often opaque sociotechnical systems, processes being relied mutually influencing complex ways, so relationship between may not be at all obvious. This study was an attempt a practice, particular analyzing had ecological validity organization-how practice responsive took place. involved observational fieldwork inductive, qualitative analysis offshore oil gas production platform that nearing end its design life undergoing refurbishment. The produced four main categories validity: responsiveness formal organization, situational contingency, information asymmetry, sociomateriality. should primary focus identification, assessing can become mismatched certain both when circumstances not.