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Engineering a safer world : systems thinking applied to safety
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ISBN: 9780262016629 9780262533690 0262016621 0262297302 0262298244 0262533693 1628703393 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, The MIT Press,

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Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineeringtechniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, havechanged very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a newapproach to safety--more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world--basedon modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950saerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively onreal-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, lessexpensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causalityare inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic AccidentModel and Processes, or STAMP), then then shows how the new model can be used to create techniquesfor system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safetyin operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques toreal-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first GulfWar; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a publicwater supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for "reengineering" any large sociotechnical system to improve safetyand manage risk.


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Safety culture : assessing and changing the behaviour of organisations
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ISBN: 1409401278 9786612857584 1409401286 1282857584 9781409401285 9781282857582 9781409401278 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham, England : Gower,

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Safety culture is a complex social/scientific concept and Dr. Taylor demystifies it with reference to theory normally associated with mainstream business development and change processes. Sections of the book deal with using safety culture theory as a predictive model, the assessment of safety culture, and how to influence culture change to produce the desired organisational behaviours. This is a practically focused book from an author with vast experience at the top level of high hazard industries.


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The human contribution : unsafe acts, accidents and heroic recoveries.
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ISBN: 9780754674009 0754674002 9780754674023 0754674029 1315239124 9781315239125 9781351888110 9781351888097 Year: 2011 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate


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Vulnerable workers : health, safety and well-being.
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ISBN: 9781409426622 9781315547831 9781317000808 9781317000815 9781138261341 Year: 2011 Publisher: Farnham Gower

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