At times where there was a regular overlap of rostered shift time for the off-coming and on-coming clinicians (30 min for the obstetric doctors and up to 2 h in the case of midwives handing over in the middle of the day), this was seen either as a period of shared or blurred responsibility and accountability until the off-coming clinician went home.
The dual-regulation model in which the Rail Regulator and the Strategic Rail Authority SRAA) divide up responsibility for controlling the industry has led, the paper notes, to personal conflicts and blurred responsibilities.
For example, the long life of CO2 in the atmosphere raises philosophically and politically difficult questions about historical responsibility for climate change, just as the importing and exporting of goods blurs responsibility for contemporary emissions.
Nash suggested that work developing so-called "automatic target recognition" was already blurring the responsibilities between the task of the machine and its human controllers.
42 43 Conversely, blurring boundaries of responsibility and accountability may result in no one taking responsibility.
Among the Bedouin, lines of protection for in-group members were clearly drawn; in Mecca, sedentarization and socioeconomic stratification had begun to blur family responsibilities and foster the growth of an oligarchy whose economic objectives could easily supersede other motivations and values.
Darek Urbaniak, a campaigner on extractive industries for Friends of the Earth Europe, in Belgium, said the number of countries with maritime claims in the Mediterranean and the lack of well-established borders could blur cleanup responsibilities in case of a spill.
There used to be a "blurring of responsibility" between the two institutions but now it's clearer what value each can add, Tcharkarov said.
