Safety and Risk Management Considerations for CSR

Abstract

Safety has for centuries been a concept that has been relevant to human existence. Maslow’s (1943) seminal work in motivation is still acknowledged to be significantly valid, although there has subsequently been significant development in motivation theories in general. His theory recognizes the primary role that safety (in a broad sense) plays in human motivation, indicating that in a hierarchical arrangement of motivation drivers, the need for safety is primary. In more contemporary times there have been wide-ranging discussions on risk, its role in society and increased discourse on its assessment and management (Beck 1992, 2009; Bernstein 1998) and the responsibilities those who assess and manage risk have to the wider society (Giddens 1999). This general increase in the awareness of risk has been in tandem with (perhaps because of) the growth of high-risk industries/organizations/corporate entities including in the maritime industry (Perrow 1999; Freudenburg 1993; Kasperson et al. 2003; Kristiansen 2005; Manuele and Main 2002; Rasmussen and Svedung 2000; Reason 1997; Renn 1992; Selmer-Olsen 2005).