Sources of Behavioral Variance in Process Safety: Analysis and Intervention

ISBN-13: 9781138493339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 204 str.

Timothy D. Ludwig

Opis

Human behavior is often the biggest source of dangerous variance in process safety systems, but it can also be the biggest asset for process safety management. This book translates basic principles and intervention techniques of behavior analysis to the challenges associated with process safety. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management.

Spis treści

Introduction – Process Safety: Another Opportunity to Translate Behavior Analysis into Evidence-Based Practices of Grave Societal Value  1. An Industry’s Call to Understand the Contingencies Involved in Process Safety: Normalization of Deviance  2. Process Safety Behavioral Systems: Behaviors Interlock in Complex Metacontingencies  3. Complacency in Process Safety: A Behavior Analysis Toward Prevention Strategies  4. Behavioral Perspectives on Variability in Human Behavior as Part of Process Safety  5. A Behavioral Interpretation of Situation Awareness: Prospects for Organizational Behavior Management  6. Assessing and Preventing Serious Incidents with Behavioral Science: Enhancing Heinrich’s Triangle for the 21st Century  7. Leadership and Crew Resource Management in High-Reliability Organizations: A Competency Framework for Measuring Behaviors  8. Integrating Behavioral Science with Human Factors to Address Process Safety  9. Leadership’s Role in Process Safety: An Understanding of Behavioral Science Among Managers and Executives Is Needed  Commentary  10. Integrating Behavioral Science with Process Safety Management  11. Is Organizational Behavior Management Enough? How Language and Person-States Could Make a Difference  12. Process Safety: Look Looking Beyond Personal Safety to Address Occupational Hazards and Risks

O autorze

Timothy D. Ludwig is a Distinguished Graduate Professor at Appalachian State University, USA, and serves on the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies’ Commission that accredits best-in-industry safety programs. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and books that empirically document methods to improve safety and quality in industry through behavior analysis.