Print Email Facebook Twitter Safety and Security Decisions in times of Economic Crisis: Establishing a Competitive Advantage Title Safety and Security Decisions in times of Economic Crisis: Establishing a Competitive Advantage Author Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values Technology and Innovation Date 2014-04-01 Abstract The paper argues that organisations who invest intelligently in safety and security, regardless the macroeconomic situation, will have a competitive advantage over their competitors not doing so. Establishing and maintaining a competitive advantage is all about excellence. Excellent results actually require seven domains to be focussed upon: ‘quality’, ‘effectiveness’, ‘productivity’, ‘safety & security’, ‘efficiency’, ‘ergonomics’, and ‘ecology’. The paper explains each of these domains and shows that safety and security indeed is a very important sub-domain, as part of the ‘value processing’ fundamental process in any organisation, reflecting the ability of organisations to adequately make profits in the long run and independent of economic crisis. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3c5c5a31-57a4-41a8-8f5c-22e40572e2fe Publisher AIDIC ISSN 1974-9791 Source https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1436001 Source Chemical Engineering Transactions, 36, 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 AIDIC Files PDF 312526.pdf 99.02 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3c5c5a31-57a4-41a8-8f5c-22e40572e2fe/datastream/OBJ/view