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During its life, any organization receives many internal or external requests (desired development, opportunities, imposed constraints, changes in objectives, realization of new projects, reactivation of a process, changes in regulatory markets, staff turnover, sociological changes, etc). As a result, any organization modifies itself voluntarily or not with time through these solicitations called transformation operators.

These inescapable developments, whether desired or endured, generate as many potential weaknesses as strengths (physical, organizational and psychological).

The cindynics approach therefore primarily monitors the fragility of collective activity situations, that is, the emergence of dangerous zones (see section 2.3.1) within an organization, thus weakening its capacity for resilience. These fragilities, due to the transformation operators, lead to deviations from a nominal or desired organization (state of the art, regulations, standards, charters, procedures, data and culture). The tensions generated by these gaps become risk sources that can lead to incidents, accidents or disasters.

This approach is therefore similar to that of physiopathology, a discipline that deals with disturbances in the normal mode of functioning of the constituent elements of a living organism.

All of the originality of cindynics lies in this ability to detect these sources of particular risks produced by these imbalances. And if, in doing so, potential forces are detected, it would be a pity not to take advantage of them.

When it comes to analyzing technical risks (which are describable), the methods and tools of dependability are perfectly suitable.

On the contrary, other categories of risk sources, more related to human, organizational, managerial, cultural and environmental aspects, being more difficult to identify, receive much less attention in order to be identified and described. As a result, cindynics, by placing the human and the organization at the heart of the complexity of organizations, focuses first on these categories of risk sources and then uses the MADS-MOSAR method to deal with technical risks.

Thus, the notion of an activity situation has become the founding concept of cindynics because it obliges us to define what is necessary to talk about when approaching a hazard study. The terms “situation” and “activity” still need to be defined:

 – “situation” is to be understood etymologically as “the location of a structure”. It is also, according to the Larousse definition, the set of events, circumstances and concrete relations in the midst of which someone or a group finds itself;

 – the word “activity” is borrowed from the Latin “activitas” or “vis agendis”, “the will to do”. Later, the meaning of “activity” became “exercise of the power to act”, then movement.

This is, indeed, the meaning given to the activity situation which integrates notions of history, geographical space, actors and movement, and therefore dynamism and development.