Safety Accidents in Risky Industries: Black Swans, Gray Rhinos and Other Adverse Events

ISBN-13: 9781032136479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 188 str.

Sasho Andonov

Opis

This book brings together different metaphors that are being used to describe risk and apply these in high-risk industries in a single volume. It is an ideal text for professionals working in the fields of health and safety, quality engineering, compliance engineering, aerospace engineering, occupational health and safety, industrial engineering.

Spis treści

1. Philosophy of Science as Introduction. 2. The Black Swan events. 3. Analysis of the “Fat-tails” in Safety. 4. What to do with BSe in the Risky Industry?. 5. The Gray Rhino events. 6. Specifics of GRe in Risky Industry. 7. The Invisible Gorilla. 8. Other “Safety Animals”. 9. How to fight “Safety Animals”?. 10. Top Management and “Safety Animals”. 11. Final Words.

O autorze

Sasho Andonov is Graduated Engineer of Electronics and Telecommunications and he has Master Degree in Metrology and Quality Management. He has 30-years professional experience and the most of it is in aviation. Starting from 2005, he is mostly dedicated to Quality and Safety Management, especially in Risky Industries. His research interest is in Quality, Safety, Metrology, Non-Linear processes and Calibration. His teaching experience is built in the Military Technological College in Muscat (Oman) and in GAL ANS in Abu Dhabi (UAE) where he taught aviation subjects (EASA Part 66 and ATSEP). At the moment, he is working as Faculty – Aviation Science of Higher College of Technology (Khalifa Bin Zayeed Air College) in Al Ain (UAE).
He attended many conferences with his papers and he has published three books in USA covering areas of Quality Management, Safety Management and Quality/Safety Auditing.