2. Five lessons from in-depth accident analysis

Flixborough, Seveso, Bhopal, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, AZF, Deepwater, domestic accidents, etc., a long list of disasters that highlight the undeniable fact that human activity is a source of hazards at the origin of these catastrophes. At the end of 1983, P. Lagadec coined the term "major technological risk". And despite the considerable progress made by risk management and control studies, it seems impossible to stop certain mechanisms in the causal chain of accidents, all the more difficult as our systems evolve relentlessly towards...