Description |
xvii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Hazards, Defences and Losses -- 2. Defeating the Defences -- 3. Dangerous Defences -- 4. The Human Contribution -- 5. Maintenance can Seriously Damage your System -- 6. Navigating the Safety Space -- 7. A Practical Guide to Error Management -- 8. The Regulator's Unhappy Lot -- 9. Engineering a Safety Culture -- 10. Reconciling the Different Approaches to Safety Management |
Summary |
Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards, and defenses developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity, and their human and financial consequences are all too often catastrophic. One of the challenges facing the next millennium 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 risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals. The author deals comprehensively with the prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes. He argues that the same general principles and management techniques are appropriate for many different domains. These include banks and insurance companies just as much as nuclear power plants, oil exploration and production companies, chemical process installations, and air, sea, and rail transport |
Notes |
This book focuses on organisational accidents, the comparitively rare, but often catastrophic, events that occur within complex modern technologies, such as nuclear power plants, commercial aviation, the petrochemical industry, chemical process plants, marine and rail transport, banks and stadiums |
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Contents: 1. Hazards, defences and losses -- 2. Defeating the defences -- 3. Dangerous defences -- 4. The human contribution -- 5. Maintenance can seriously damage your system -- 6. Navigating the safety space -- 7. A practical guide to error management -- 8. The regulator's unhappy lot -- 9. Engineering a safety culture -- 10. Reconciling the different approaches to safety management |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Also issued online |
Subject |
Hazardous substances -- Safety measures.
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Industrial safety -- Management.
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Risk assessment.
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Industrial accidents.
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Risk assessment.
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Risk Assessment.
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Accidents, Occupational.
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LC no. |
97024648 |
ISBN |
1840141050 pkb |
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1840141042 hb |
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