Proactive assessment of breaches of safety constraints and causal organizational breakdowns in complex systems: A joint STAMP–VSM framework for safety assessment

The evolution of accident causation models indicates a shift from the representation of sequences of events to the dynamic analysis of the whole system (i.e. systemic approaches). Respectively, the evolution of safety assessment methods reveals a gradual shift from a search for single immediate causes to a recognition of multiple causes such as organizational and management breakdowns. Following this line of thought, system and control-theoretic...