Dynamic Risk Management from Human Factors Networks

Anthropogenic action historically has sought to increase the life quality within a civilizing process. This objective is added to the aggregation of economic value in cities, for individuals or groups, which in the current lack of control in the use of resources, have promoted cultural, physical, and natural changes, restricting the socioenvironmental balance. Thus, the Natural, Geopolitical and Social environments are dynamic and need to be revised in terms of risk acceptance for survival. This scenario changes social, physical, and work relationships, including those resulted from a virtual world in real presence. In the elaboration of products and services, the repetition of procedures in industrial processes and services guarantee the intended objectives, which are low costs, high comfort, and safety for society. These dynamic environments with technologies, social relationships and quite complex tasks lead us to challenges in risk management for Industry and Society. Risk analysis tools and techniques should be revised for the inclusion of factors that have compromise with human performance and those related to the environment surrounding the activities. Constraints on resources, such as water, energy and materials make automation and modern technologies necessary, with the aim of reducing the risks and impacts of accidents in the chemical industry. Risks are dynamic, thus it is necessary to improve communication and increase investments in barriers, considering that failures have systemic origin, to avoid material-human losses during operations and be more assertive in reducing/migrating the hazard energy towards non-critical spots through the Human Factors Network, which makes the safety to be the best possible by preventing deviance normalization as well as other inadequate patterns.