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Seeking High-Reliability Organizations by Overcoming Vulnerability for Decision-Making System - A Case Study of the 2011 Rolling Blackout in South Korea -

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2017, 13(11), pp.1-26
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2017.13.11.1
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : August 28, 2017
  • Accepted : November 20, 2017
  • Published : November 30, 2017

Park, Hyunsoo 1

1순천향대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to explore technical and organizational failure during the rolling blackout in Korea on September 15th, 2011. It used the framework of High Reliability Organizations (HROs) Theory to diagnose the status of the organizations controlling the power system and propose behavioral principles of a reliability-seeking organization. The identified problems include: deficiencies of technical control with Energy Management System(EMS), lack of care, caution & sense-making, incomplete and confused decision-making procedure during emergency, failure of analysis at the central level and of action at the local level. The results suggest that the organization that operates the power system should take such principles as increasing organizational transparency for electricity reliability, becoming a learning organization through trial-and-error and simulations, improving communication skills between organizations, and securing substantial institutionalization of electricity reliability.

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