Jean-Christophe Le Coze Profile

Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a research director at INERIS (National Institute for the Industrial Environment and Risks) in France. He holds a PhD (2011) in safety and risk management from Ecole des Mines de Paris. He has been studying and working with safety-critical organisations for more than twenty years (chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, nuclear, railways, oil & gas), promoting a cognitive, sociological and strategic view of safety in increasingly global operating landscapes.

Jean-Christophe is regularly consulted by private and public organisations. He is known for his combination of practice and theory, his promotion of safety science research.

He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of several books including Safety in the Digital Age (with Stian Antonsen) (2023); Post Normal Accident. Revisiting Perrow’s classic (2020); Safety Science Research. Evolution, Challenges and New Directions (2019); His recent articles include “NASA, SpaceX, safety and (Post) Bureaucracy” (2024), “Coupling and Complexity at the global scale” (2023).

He is an Associate Editor of the journal Safety Science and is a member of several Think Tanks. He teaches safety in engineering and sociology universities.