Spreker: Nektarios Karanikas

Over Nektarios Karanikas
Associate professor in Health, Safety & Environment at Queensland University of Technology.
Having accumulated professional health & safety qualifications, credentials and experience in both industrial and academic environments, he strongly believes we focus too much on implementing solutions to control risks before we invest enough time in understanding the risks we target and their environment. He has often observed organisations emphasising processes more than humans and trying to improve their systems without addressing the core of health & safety: managing harmful and promoting beneficial interactions and exposures of humans, including the social, technical, natural and wider environments. Therefore, his focus is on how organisations can drive sustainable and impactful changes by considering their dynamic context, meaning mapping the present, scanning the future, and consulting with the past. He advocates inclusive and holistic approaches and avoids binary and seemingly rival approaches to health & safety. Instead of solutioneering through the direct application of whatever tools and methods traditional or modern safety views advocate, he is first interested in what organisations need and how they can build capacity to improve health & safety within their reality. Identifying gaps at any level and between levels is usually the starting point, but he supports and implements a more reconciling perspective, moving beyond Work-as-Done and Work-as-Imagined to Work-as-Possible and Work-as-Agreed.
Nektarios Karanikas in het kort
Richtprijs
- €1000*
Talen
English
Specialisaties
- Safety management
- Human factors
*Indicatieve prijsstelling voor een lezing van een uur inclusief voorbereiding, een telefonisch intakegesprek met de opdrachtgever van 20 minuten, vervoerskosten en bureaukosten.