Safety Management of Infrastructures Through an Organizational Approach: Preliminary Results

The safety of the road infrastructures is a very relevant topic within the governance of a territory characterized by several structural systems built some decades ago. In fact, since these structural systems are affected by not neg-ligible safety problems, the governance actors are called to define appropriate plans and interventions to reduce undesirable social impacts. It derives that the actors, i.e., public or private stakeholders, are responsible of both the administra-tive and economic procedures. The present study discusses this topic by means of some preliminary suggestions and results in relation to the safety management of the infrastructures from an organizational perspective through two models. In fact, the study highlights the stakeholders domain as the virtual place where the organizational principles should guide all the processes. In detail, as for a group of Italian infrastructures in Rome, the author suggest to adopt the monitoring by means of satellites for a territorial analysis. This technology-based data can lead to the elaboration of alert maps as well as risk analyses useful to upgrade the organizational features within the management and governance procedures.