Introduction to safety science : people, organisations, and systems /: people, organisations, and systems. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Peter Arthur O'Hare.
• Authors: O'Hare, David
• Contents: Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to Safety 1.1The Toll of Toil 1.2 Workplace Safety Around the World 1.3 Relative Burdens of Workplace Illness and Injury 1.4 Does ‘Regulated Self-Regulation’ Work? 1.5 Transportation Safety 1.6 The ‘Safety Journey’ Section One: Individuals 2. Risk Perceiving Risk 2.1 Risk Tolerance 2.2 Risk-Taking and Accidents 2.3 Adapting to Risk 2.4 Quantifying Risk 2.5 Managing Risk 2.6 Safety Management Systems 2.7 Conclusions 3. Human Error The Varieties of Human Error 3.1 Coming Together: Academic Consensus on Human Error 3.2 Freudian Slips 3.3 Remembering to Remember 3.4 Error and Skill in Context 3.5 Error as an Industrial Safety Problem 3.6 The ‘Swiss Cheese’ Metaphor 3.7 Human Error Analysis in Practice 3.8 Summary and Conclusions 4. Safety by Design Designing for Flight Safety 4.1 Controls and Displays 4.2 Design for Action 4.3 Designing Tasks for Human Abilities 4.4 Attention and Performance 4.5 Decisions, Decisions 4.6 Light, Heat, and Reach 4.7 Summary and Conclusions Section Two: Organizations 5. Normal Accidents People in Context: Societies and Organizations 5.1 Normal Accident Theory 5.2 Error-Inducing Systems 5.3 The Management Paradox 5.4 The Dynamics of Normal Accidents 5.5 Assessing Normal Accident Theory 6. High Reliability Organizations 6.1 Commercial Aviation and the Mid-Air Collision 6.2 The Berkeley Project 6.3 Defining a ‘High Reliability Organization’ 6.4 Can we Rely on Healthcare? 6.5 The Contribution of HRO Theory 7. Normalization of Deviance, 7.1 Social Influence, 7.2 The Launch Decision, 7.3 Normalization of Deviance, 7.4 Safety Oversight at NASA, 7.5 Nothing Fails Like Success, 7.6 Applications of the ‘Normalization of Deviance’ Concept, 7.7 Drift into Failure Section Three: Systems 8. Cognitive Engineering: Constraints and Boundaries Constraints 8.1 The Decision Ladder 8.2 The Abstraction Hierarchy 8.3 Ecological Interface Design 8.4 The Boundaries of Safe Work 8.5 Mad Cows and Englishmen 8.6 ‘Workarounds’ in Healthcare 8.7 Summary and Conclusions 9. The Cybernetics of Safety: Information and Control 9.1 Feedback and Control 9.2 Information: The Difference That Makes a Difference 9.3 The STAMP Model of System Safety 9.4 Management Cybernetics: The Viable Systems Model 9.5 Conclusions 10. Variability and Resilience Resilience Engineering 10.1 Resilient Healthcare 10.2 Resilience in Action 10.3 Safety-II 10.4 Safety Management: The New Agenda 10.5 Safety-II in Practice 10.6 Critique of Safety-II 10.7 Safety as a Systems Science 10.8 Conclusions 11. Making Sense of Failure: Beyond Accident Investigation (With Karl Bridges) 11.1 Accident Investigation 11.2 The Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster 11.3 Human Factors Analysis & Classification System (HFACS) Accimap 11.4 Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) 11.5 Causal Analysis and Modelling Based on STAMP (CAST) 11.6 Comparisons Between the Accident Analysis Models 11.7 Systems Thinking in Accident Analysis 11.8 Conclusions Chapter Notes Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 158.7; Psychology, Industrial; Industrial safety; Performance technology; Errors -- Prevention
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000563832; 9781000563818; 9781003038443
• Related ISBNs: 9780367462826
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