Summary and conclusions
Risk industries: conducting an organizational diagnostic by the search for pathogenic factors

The aim here is to find the elements needed to structure an organizational diagnosis as part of a risk prevention approach.

To achieve this objective, we postulated that an organizational diagnosis could be built around the search for pathogenic organizational factors within the company being diagnosed. Beyond naming and defining these factors, we showed that their suitability for diagnosis depended on their ability to suggest observables and objects of observation capable of giving them a meaning that would guide the final judgment expected from the diagnosis.

• Among the contributions of this article, we can note that :

  • the description of organizational factors in demonstrates the feasibility of identifying factors for which it is possible to associate...