Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks

This open access book contributes to the increasing trend toward greater public participation in decision-making in many areas of public life, particularly in the field of the environment and sustainable development. It describes the outcome of a two-day workshop, organized by the Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture in 2023, that addresses the continuing sensitivities surround the impact of hazardous industrial activities.

Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks brings together international academic experts as well as industrial and institutional representatives to shed light on the topics discussed during this workshop. Through the viewpoints of experts from various disciplines, industrial sectors, and countries, it offers an opportunity to gain a better grasp of the multiplicity and complexity of participatory processes and to understand their expected benefits, their drawbacks, and potential pitfalls. The work supports the making of better-informed decisions, especially by industrial or regulatory actors, to engage or not with public participation.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Develops a shared perspective between proponents of public participation and experts in industrial risk Describes public participation both conceptually and empirically so that its advantages can be more easily exploited Provides industrial actors with options for designing and implementing participatory mechanisms

Auteur

Corinne Bieder is Head of the Safety management research program at ENAC (the French Civil Aviation University). She has worked and conducted research in safety management in a variety of high-risk industries for many years. She has published a number of papers and books on safety management and is a member of the international NeTWork think tank addressing safety from a multidisciplinary perspective. After being a member of its strategic analysis group, she took up the position of scientific director at FonCSI (Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture) in 2024.

Hervé Laroche is Emeritus Professor in the Management department at ESCP Business School. His research concerns decision-making processes in organizations, organizational reliability, and organizational secrecy. It has been published in Management, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, etc. He has been a member of FonCSI's strategic analysis group since 2014.

Caroline Kamaté holds a Ph.D. in immunology. She has post-doctoral experience in academy (University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands) and in industry (Sanofi-Aventis, France). Her interest for scientific communication led her to join FonCSI in 2007 where she is involved in the management of research programmes and dissemination of results.

Contenu

Public Participation in the Governance of Risks Associated with Industrial Activities: The New Injunction, Decoy Breakthrough?.- Part I: Models and Cases: Accounting for Context and Complexity.- Public Participation and the Democratic Imaginaries: Why Public Participation May Not Yield the Benefits Expected.- Decision-Making in Projects Involving Public Participation: Regulating the Mess. The Governance of Industrial and Community Risk.- Broadening the Scope of industrial Risk Assessment and Management.- Total Energies Approach to Stakeholder Engagement.- Part II: Approaches for Developing and Managing Public Participation.- Social Acceptability of Industrial Risk: From the Right to Know ot the Duty to Engage.- Public Participation in the Management of Risk from Industrial Facilities.- Participatory Processes for Industrial Risk Management: Enablers, Barriers and Limitations.- Engaging Citizens in Dialogue on Technoscience: An Endogenous Approach.- Another Kind of Participation is Possible: The Case of the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety.- Conclusion.