The authors believe that a systematic organizational approach to aviation safety must replace the piecemeal approaches largely favoured in the past, but this change needs to be preceded by information to explain why a new approach is necessary. Accident records show a flattening of the safety curve since the early Seventies: instead of new kinds of accident, similar safety deficiencies have become recurrent features in accident reports. This suggests the need to review traditional accident prevention strategies, focused almost exclusively on the action or inactiona s of front-line operational...
The authors believe that a systematic organizational approach to aviation safety must replace the piecemeal approaches largely favoured in the past, b...
Modern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the book spans the disciplinary gulf between psychological theory and those concerned with maintaining the reliabiblity of hazardous technologies. Much of the theoretical structure is new and original, and of particular importance is the identification of cognitive processes common to a wide variety of error types.
Modern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its ...
This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. However there is another perspective that has been relatively little studied in its own right - the human as hero, whose adaptations and compensations bring troubled systems back from the brink of disaster time and again. What, if anything, did these situations have in common? Can these human abilities be 'bottled' and passed on to others? The...
This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazar...
Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of high-technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for managing the...
Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with s...
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an organizational accident . These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to individual accidents whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal factors, they mostly have quite different causal pathways. The frequency of individual accidents - usually lost-time injuries - does not predict the likelihood of an organizational accident. The book also...
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an organizational accident . These are rare but often calamitous events that o...
