The Blame Machine: Why Human Error Causes Accidents

ISBN-13: 9780750655101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

Robert B. Whittingham; R. B. Whittingham

Opis

Describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. This work shows how such errors are preventable. It also describes the existence of a 'blame culture' in many organisations, which focuses on individual human error whilst ignoring the system failures that caused it.

Recenzje

"I cannot recommend this book highly enough."
- Donald Muir in HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK, December 2004

"...a good book..."
Trevor Kletz in THE CHEMICAL ENGINEER, IChemE, March 2004

Spis treści

Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Part 1: Understanding Human Error  To Err is Human.  Errors in Practice.  Latent Errors and Violations.  Human Reliability Analysis.  Human Error Modelling.  Human Error in Event Sequences.  Part 2: Accident Case Studies   Organizational and Management Errors.  Design Errors.  Maintenance Errors.  Active Errors in Railway Operations.  Active Errors in Aviation.  Violations.  Incident Response Errors.  Conclusions.  Appendix: Train Protection Systems.  Index.

O autorze

R.B. Whittingham