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In this paper, I suggest that a major challenge of much safety culture research is that it runs the risk of neglecting the organizational, meso level. Consequentially, it often seems to lack a proper conceptualization of the relationship between culture, technology and structure in high-risk organizations. High-reliability organizations (HRO) research, on the other hand, focuses on this relationship. The aim of the paper is to develop an understanding of safety culture that incorporates some of the HRO approach's insights regarding the relationship between safety, culture, technology and structure. I outline and discuss the research on safety culture and the HRO approach's treatment of culture and safety, before I suggest a sociotechnical understanding of safety culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the dynamics of crisis on individuals and offers intervention techniques to help employees who are experiencing crises. Historical perspective on understanding crisis; Definition of crisis; Information on crisis continuum; Phases of crisis intervention.

The article offers information on the movement to combat food crisis. After 25 years, humanitarian agencies have realized that tackling the risk of disasters is an approach to prevent drought and flood that cause famine. ActionAid, an international aid agency, elaborated the dramatic progress produced when countries translated the right to food into concrete actions, like investing in poor farmers, and bringing in basic measures to protect the vulnerable.