Workshop topics

NeTWork workshops have addressed a range of issues related to new technologies and work. The focus over the last decade has been the safety of high technology systems and the role of human contribution to either failure or resilience of hazardous systems.

2024	Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies: Burden or Inspiration?
2022	Climate change and safety in high-hazard industries
2021	Safety in a digital age: old and new problems
2019	Visualising Safety, an exploration: Drawings, pictures, images, videos, movies
2018	Safety - Security: Synergies & Tensions
2017	Exploring resilience: a scientific journey from theoretical models to practical operationalization
2016	Risk communication 3.0: Effect of risk communication on safety management
2013	The illusion of risk control. What would it take to live with uncertainty?
2012	Liability and insurance and their influence on safety management of industrial operations and products
2011	Control and accountability in highly automated systems
2010	How desirable and avoidable is proceduralization of safety?
2008	Event analysis and organizational learning
2007	Resolving multiple criteria in decision-making involving risk of accidental loss
2006	Safety in Applying Genetic Engineering to Agriculture
2005	Global Challenges to Workplace Health and Safety
2004	Safety Culture and Behavioral Change at the Workplace
2003	Safety in the Design Process
2002	Towards risk coherence
2001	Knowledge Sharing and Learning in Organizations
2000	Safety Regulation: the Challenge of New Technologies & New Frontiers
1999	Achieving Successful Safety Interventions
1998	Risk and Safety in Medicine
1997	Coping with Accelerating Technologies
1996	The Organization-Safety Link
1995	Theories and Methods of Event Analysis
1994	In Search of Safety
1993	The Use of Rules to Achieve Safety
1992	Growth, Change, and Industrial Safety
1991	Control of Safety
1990	Managing New Technologies
1989	Telematics and Work
1988	Modeling Distributed Decision Making
1987	What and How to Teach in Information Technology
1986	Information Technology, Competence, and Employment
1985	Changing Work Structures and Work Meanings in the Context of New Information Technologies
1984	New Technology and Human Error
1983	New Information Technologies and Work