Sicherheit in Einrichtungen hohen Gefährdungspotentials - "Safety Interaction Patterns" in Teams zur Gestaltung komplexer Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion.

New technology is making fundamental changes in the design of complex socio-technical systems. In high hazard industries safety is trying to be achieved by increasing the reliability of the individual system components. In contrast modern safety research points out that safety and reliability are characterized as different system properties. This paper presents a resilience based concept, accenting human behavior as potential source of safety. It is based on the assumption that teams in high hazard organizations (e.g. teams in control rooms of nuclear power plants) manage system-safety by building and further developing common cognitive strategies. These strategies can be observed on the behavioral level as “safety-interaction-patterns” (SIP, Ritz & Rack, 2009). Thru combination of state of the art simulators and research methods SIP can be observed and analyzed, with intent to stabilize socio-technical systems in high hazard potential industries.