Speaker Jean Pariès

Jean Pariès
Professor, DEDALE SAS

Jean PARIES is the President of DEDALE SAS, a consulting company located in Paris (France) and Melbourne (Australia), and active in domains such as aviation, tail, nuclear power, or patient safety. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Human and Organizational Factors of safety, and the author of numerous papers, book chapters and communications in this field

He graduated from ENAC, the French National School of Civil Aviation, as an aeronautical engineer. He also hold a commercial pilot license, with multi engines, turbo-prop and instrument ratings, and a helicopter private pilot license. Before leading Dédale, he worked with the French Civil Aviation Authority, then with the French Air Accident Investigation Bureau, as Deputy Head, and Head of Investigations.

From 2000 to 2004, he was also an Associate Research Director with the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Since the early 2000s, he has actively participated in the research movement of Resilience Engineering, and he is the current President of the "Resilience Engineering Association". In 2007 he was awarded the Paul Biro Price by the MINES ParisTech Foundation.
Speaker in the sessions
- Thursday 02 May 2019
  13:50 - 14:20 The challenge of the unexpected
  Better, Leaner, Cheaper … and SAFER! The title of the conference sums up very well the challenge facing the oil & gas industry, like many others. This challenge obviously raises specific questions about the latter item: safety. It generally follows from the debate that yes, there may be safety risks to making too much savings, or putting too much pressure on operations, but ultimately, all things considered, the qualities necessary for superior operational performance - such as good procedures, good equipment, good leadership, good communication, good synergy, are also the ones that guarantee safety. There is truth in this vision, but perhaps it is incomplete. In his presentation, Jean Pariés will show that optimization strategies - based on the anticipation and standardization of “one best way” responses, also have a perverse effect: by reducing the diversity and variability of systems, they reduce what is called their resilience: the ability to handle the unexpected. He will also suggest ways to preserve this capacity, because it is more and more necessary in a world paradoxically at once more and more regulated and unpredictable. Indeed, day after day, the news from the world confirms the growth of change, turbulence and complexity, the reign of surprise, and the need for adaptability and resilience.
  
  14:50 - 15:15 Talk and engagement session, Slido Q&A
  At TFZ 2019 we will engage together in the experience of growing our safety leadership. We will do this through crowd sourcing questions from you. Each of the three conference engagement sessions will be based on your submitted questions. With the Slido Q&A platform you will have the opportunity to provide questions for steering the conversations. When you have submitted a question our moderator will have it in his pool of questions to aid the conversation.
  
  Word clouding
  As further ways of us engaging together, we will have an open poll in which you can submit those words and key takeaways which are top of your mind from presentations and engagement sessions. The word cloud will be live during the entire conference and used as a supplement in the engagement sessions.