Chapter 7. The Operational Effectiveness of
the Assessment — Mastering the Strengths of
Technical Dialogue
A discussion of the operational effectiveness of the assessment can be
approached in various ways.
The production process that is the assessment, whose operations are
described in the preceding chapter of this book, result in a final outcome– a list
of conclusions and recommendations. The following question immediately comes
to mind: what effects do these recommendations have on the safety of the
assessed facilities? This question imposes the choice of a conventional definition
of safety – safety learned following a number of incidents, safety as a set of
barriers, safety as a dynamic non-event protected by socio-cultural processes. ...