Is expertise dangerous?
A response to René Amalberti
- Jean Pariès
- Issue
- 2021-05
- Number of pages
- 6 pages
- Interest
- Regle-Gere
Available formats
Abstract
In a previous Industrial Safety Opinion Piece (2021–03), René Amalberti argues that there could be a causal link between exper-tise, autonomy, risk-taking and accidents. In response, Jean Pariès puts forward a different point of view. In addition to challenging the causal link between expertise and accidents, and asserting the benefits of expertise for safety, he proposes that we can integrate super experts into organizations by using their meta-competencies and by relying on the workforce.