Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1 bookcover

Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 1

Remaining Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure
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The first volume in the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series deals with important issues such as measurements and models, the use of procedures to ensure safety, the relation between resilience and robustness, safety management, and the use of risk analysis. The chapters utilize a report from a serious medical accident to illustrate more concretely how resilience engineering can make a difference, both to the understanding of how accidents happen and to what an organization can do to become more resilient.

Product Details

PublisherCRC Press
Publish DateJune 20, 2008
Pages352
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780754671275
Dimensions9.2 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches | 1.5 pounds

About the Author

Professor Erik Hollnagel, Industrial Safety Chair, Ã0/00cole des Mines de Paris - Pôle Cindyniques, France, Christopher P. Nemeth, Research Associate, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA and Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Previously Professor at Lund University, Sweden, and Director of the Leonardo Da Vinci Center for Complexity and Systems Thinking there, he gained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA. He has worked in New Zealand, the Netherlands and England, been Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Visiting Academic in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne, and Professor of Community Health Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba in Canada. Sidney is author of several best-selling books on system failure, human error, ethics and governance. He has been flying the Boeing 737NG part-time as airline pilot for the past few years. The OSU Foundation in the United States awards a yearly Sidney Dekker Critical Thinking Award.

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'This book is worthwhile reading...' Human Factors & Ergonomics Society European Chapter Newsletter 'This publication is provocative reading for the widest possible range of responsible management personnel' RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Journal

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