Safety and security are often regarded as two separate concepts, both scientifically and organizationally. Both are often seen as two fundamentally conflicting institutional demands and their agendas as being based on two profoundly different organizing principles. Because of this, safety may get less …

Binnen het militaire domein houdt men ten aanzien van het bewerkstelligen van veiliger werken veelal vast aan klassieke benaderingswijzen. Deze richten zich voornamelijk op het verhogen van de individuele kwaliteit en de betrouwbaarheid van afzonderlijke onderdelen. Veiligheidsanalyses in dit soort …

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in general and UAS safety in particular have so far received little attention in the science, technology and society (STS) literature. This paper therefore reports on several (military) cases of this relatively new technology, focusing specifically on issues of safety. …

In their initiatives to achieve organizational safety goals, managers, but also members of safety institutes – such as regulators – often seem to follow what in the military might be called “normaltaktik” or “order-type tactics”. Also military attitudes towards safety seem to resemble and reinforce normaltaktik. …