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Approach to the selection of strategies for emerging risk management considering uncertainty as the main decision variable in occupational contexts
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Abstract
Emerging risk models are still scarce and far from agreed upon. They are currently the focus of increasing interest in the occupational context. Consequently, frameworks that deal with emerging risk management in industrial contexts are very recent or, even still, in the development and maturation stage. Uncertainty should be considered as the main characteristic of emerging risk in this context. It is as such that the main objective of this paper is to develop a qualitative approach inspired by meta-learning lessons to the selection of strategies for emerging risk management, considering uncertainty as the main decision variable in occupational contexts. To this end, uncertainty has been integrated, as a combination of knowledge and understanding, in a theoretical framework on emerging risk. An emerging risk classification scheme has been developed with the results obtained. This scheme makes it possible to estimate the level of emerging risk and management strategies based on the combination of uncertainty and the potential consequences of emerging risk. Such approach has been applied to three case studies with different evolutionary degrees of emerging risk: exoskeletons; nanomaterials; and industrial automation. The proposed approach could be considered primarily as a qualitative tool applicable to the process of pre-assessment and communication of emerging risk.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Safety science. - Amsterdam, 1991, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : 2021
ISSN
0925-7535
DOI
10.1016/J.SSCI.2020.105041
Volume/pages
134 (2021) , p. 1-11
Article Reference
105041
ISI
000600062200011
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E-only publicatie
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