Citation

Blakstad HC, Hovden J, Rosness R. Safety Sci. 2010; 48(3): 382-394.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssci.2009.09.010

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article presents a case study of four safety rule modification processes in the Norwegian railway system and their results. Special attention is given to the ambition to change the tradition of the system from predominantly experience based prescriptive rules towards risk based outcome-oriented rules. This can be seen as an introduction of a deductive and risk based top-down approach to rule development. The cases met this challenge with a strategy given the name