Chapter 2

Describing and Prescribing for Safe Operations within a Large Technical System (LTS): First Reflections

Jean Christophe Le Coze and Nicolas Herchin

Introduction

This chapter presents some elements of an ongoing study investigating the way in which safety is produced in normal operation within a ‘large technical system’ (LTS) operating high pressure gas transmission networks. Although relying strongly on the original manuscript of the 2011 resilience engineering symposium (Le Coze et al., 2011), this new version, apart from updating and expending some sections, opens up more on the ‘engineering’ part of the study, or what we have described elsewhere for instance as the move from description to prescription (Le Coze et al., 2012). In ...

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