FRAM (Functional Resonance Analysis Method)

THE FRAM is a method to analyse how work activities take place either retrospectively or prospectively. This is done by analysing work activities in order to produce a model or representation of how work is done.

The FRAM is a method for modelling non-trivial socio-technical systems. It is NOT a risk assessment method and it is not an accident analysis method. Neither is a FRAM model a flow model, a network model, or a graph. But the model produced by a FRAM analysis can serve as the basis for a risk analysis, an event investigation, or something entirely different.

It needs to be emphasised that a FRAM model of a system is merely a systematic description of key functions.