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Risk-Based Thinking and Knowledge in Engineering Organizations

Risk-Based Thinking and Knowledge in Engineering Organizations
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Presented at IABSE Workshop: Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Human Errors in Structural Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, 15-16 February 2017, published in , pp. 9-16
DOI: 10.2749/helsinki.2017.009
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Against the personal background of working in computational research, in design and in quality management, personal views on uncertainties, on human error and learning are presented. They refer to g...
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Author(s): (SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SA, Zurich, Switzerland)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Workshop: Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Human Errors in Structural Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, 15-16 February 2017
Published in:
Page(s): 9-16 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 9-16
Total no. of pages: 8
DOI: 10.2749/helsinki.2017.009
Abstract: Against the personal background of working in computational research, in design and in quality management, personal views on uncertainties, on human error and learning are presented. They refer to ground-breaking work from ETH Zurich in the 1970s and expand on the Swiss approach to a holistic quality management in the construction sector, which may seem “old-fashioned” in today’s price-driven market. Organizational dispositions, both on company level and within professional societies are addressed. In the context of risk and knowledge management, the revised FIDIC/EFCA guide on quality management (ISO 9001:2015) is briefly presented.
Keywords:
human error collaboration building culture computational mechanics engineering careers dependability organizational learning ISO 9001