Investigating Human Error: Incidents, Accidents, and Complex Systems

ISBN-13: 9781138424777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Barry Strauch

Opis

This is a paperbound reprint of a 2002 book. Utilizing aviation accidents for most of his examples, but stressing the applicability of the material to any investigation of the causes of human error in transportation and industrial systems, Strauch (psychology, George Mason U. and aviation management

Recenzje

’...essential reading for the professional investigator and the serious student of the subject. Strauch is commendably thorough. Do not be discouraged from buying the book because you do not work in aviation. In fact, reading about accidents in other industries we see the causes more clearly as we are not involved.' Industrial Safety Magazine 'It is always exciting to receive new books from Ashgate in the sure expectancy of new findings and fresh interpretation...as hard to put down as a crime detection thriller, with carefully researched case histories revealing disastrous sequences of human error, maladministration and criminal neglect far stranger than fiction. This is an important and valuable book...' The RoSPA Occupational Safety and Health Journal

Spis treści

Contents: Part I Errors and Complex Systems: Introduction; Errors, complex systems, accidents, and investigations. Part II Antecedents: Equipment; The operator; The company and the regulator; Maintenance and inspection; Multi-operator systems; Culture. Part III Data and Data Analysis: System recorders; Written documentation; Interviews; Analysis. Part IV Issues: Situation awareness and decision making; Automation. Part V Applying the Data: Case study; Final thoughts; References; Index.

O autorze

Barry Strauch has lectured and taught human factors, aircraft accident investigation techniques, and human error to accident investigators, graduate students, and government and industry officials throughout the world. He is an adjunct faculty member of the psychology department of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, an instructor at George Washington University's aviation management certificate program in Washington, DC, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Aviation Psychology. He has been with the National Transportation Safety Board for over 18 years as a human performance investigator, major aircraft accident investigator in charge, chief of the human performance division, and currently, Assistant Director for Instruction of the NTSB Academy. He has investigated accidents in all major transportation modes, involving vehicles ranging from passenger trains, to Boeing 747s, to nuclear attack submarines. He earned a PhD in educational psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and holds a commercial pilot certificate, with an instrument aeroplane rating.