
III. The Effectiveness of Assessment
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points of reference and a phenomenon of anomie – it cannot be concluded that
Nogent is ‘unreliable’”
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2.4. Conclusion: The Lessons of the Human Factors Assessment
The conception of safety advocated by safety ethnographers is different from
the conception predicated on defense in depth and Reason’s model, whose
principles are quite similar to those used by the human factors experts
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The findings of this research on safety “in action” hardly appear prescriptible.
Indeed, we cite as an example “an intergroup tension between units organized
around different professional skills, approaches or training” ...