Chapter 18

Auditing Resilience in Risk Control and Safety Management Systems

Andrew Hale

Frank Guldenmund

Louis Goossens

Introduction

Discussion of the need for resilience in organisations is only of academic value, if it is not possible to assess in advance of accidents and disasters whether an organisation has those qualities, or how to change the organisation in order to acquire or improve them, if it does not already have them. Proactive assessment of organisations relies on one form or other of management audit or organisational culture assessment. In this chapter we look critically at the ARAMIS risk assessment approach designed for evaluating high-hazard chemical plants, which contains a management audit (Duijm et al., 2004; Hale et al., ...

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