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Contracting and Safety: Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries
Contracting and Safety: Exploring Outsourcing Practices in High-Hazard Industries
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This open-access book explores the rise of outsourcing, contracting, and subcontracting as work organizing strategies and their impact on public safety, particularly in complex supply networks in engineering industries. It offers practical recommendations for managing these arrangements to prioritize short-term profitability while maintaining excellence in long-term safety outcomes. The brief is a valuable resource for organizations seeking to maximize the benefits and minimize the potential risks associated with contracting and outsourcing.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 116 pages
Publication date: 08 February 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
This open-access book delves into the rise of outsourcing, contracting, and subcontracting as organizational strategies for structuring work. It investigates the consequences of these employment arrangements on public safety, particularly when they are interconnected with intricate supply networks across various engineering sectors, such as oil and gas, nuclear power, and aviation. The brief offers practical guidelines for effectively managing arrangements that prioritize short-term profitability while also ensuring excellence in long-term safety outcomes. It serves as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to optimize the benefits and mitigate the potential long-term system reliability issues that can arise from contracting and outsourcing, rather than perceiving it as a purely negative or positive practice.
Contracting and Safety: Qualitative, Empirical Studies on High-Reliability Organizations comprises a collection of qualitative and empirical studies that focus on high-reliability organizations. As such, this brief offers a comprehensive portrayal of the experiences of working within complex supply chains. It holds significance for researchers in industrial safety, as well as safety professionals and project managers within engineering industries.
Weight: 209g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030897918
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022
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