2007:24 Safety Management in Non-Nuclear Contexts Examples from Swedish Railway Regulatory and Company Perspectives

The authors describe important features of safety management and the results are modelled according to the systems perspective developed. These are definitions of safety management, the structure of the organizations, organizational change, regulatory and operational activities, safety strategy, threats to safety, information management and feedback, incident and accident reporting, and measurement of safety. The results tentative themes derived from the railway industry could be used in a systems approach to safety management in the nuclear context. However, the knowledge-transfer between different areas will still need more development.