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The set of tools used by cindynics identifies the devices used to characterize activity situations and to qualify areas considered dangerous:

 – the characterization of situations is performed through criteria relating to five domains (spatial, geographical, chronological, contextual and networks of actors) (see Chapter 2, section 2.2);

 – the qualification of hazardous areas cannot be limited to the technical qualifier alone, it broadens its scope by selecting five others. For, in order to take the other risk sources into consideration, it appeared indispensable to report on the aims of the collective work, the methodological aspects, and the philosophical, ethical and deontological questions, specific to any organization and, by definition, complex.

Hence, in addition to the scientific “aspects” represented by data and models, cindynics has added complementary qualifiers relating to the humanities, integrating the regulations or rules undergone or imposed, the values that guide actions towards goals and purposes that are the aims of the organization. Thanks to these five qualifying aspects, risk sources that have not been identified so far become accessible to the description⁷.

Laws are acts passed by Parliament. Regulations emanate from the Executive and are expressions of laws. Their applications are imposed. By extension, within an organization, rules are the expression of a decision from different levels of management. It is understandable that these notions also apply to the term procedure.

In contrast, standards are voluntary. Compliance is not mandatory.

With respect to values, this term refers to attributes and perceptions that a person shares with members of his or her social or cultural group. Types of sociological values include moral and ethical, ideological (political), spiritual (religion), beliefs, for example, ecological beliefs, or aesthetic, open, individual and collective beliefs.

As for the term purpose, it represents a set of statements, stemming from one or more ideas, which will come in the form of a goal to be reached. For an organization, the purpose is its raison d’être.

It is important not to confuse the term purpose (or goal) with the term objective, because the latter is a step, a means to an end, to arrive at the purpose.

In cindynics literature, this representation of qualification is called the hyperspace of danger [KER 95].