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Author Dekker, Sidney, author.

Title Foundations of safety science : a century of understanding accidents and disasters / Sidney Dekker
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 445 pages) : illustrations
Contents The 1900s and onward : beginnings / Drew Rae and Sidney Dekker. Safety and risk : divine or human? ; Modernity and humankind's control of nature ; Modernity and safety engineering ; The rise of safety institutions ; Safety science and the role of the human -- The 1910s and onward : Taylor and proceduralization. The intersection of science, management, and safety ; Procedures, safety rules, and "violations" ; Model 2 : applying procedures as substantive cognitive activity ; Model 2 and safety ; Scientific management in safety today -- The 1920s and onward : accident prone. The discovery (or construction) of accident-proneness ; The social conditions of possibility ; Accident-proneness today ; Expertise and accident-proneness -- The 1930s and onward : Heinrich and behavior-based safety. A 'scientific' examination of accident causation ; Three pillars of Heinrich's theory ; Behaviorism and BBS ; BBS ; Critiques of Heinrich, behaviorism and BBS -- The 1940s and onward : human factors and cognitive systems engineering. Human factors and changes in psychology ; Cognitive systems engineering -- The 1950s, 1960s, and onward : system safety / Drew Rae and Sidney Dekker. Historical background ; Formal concepts of system safety ; System safety as the absence of negative events? -- The 1970s and onward : man-made disasters. Man-made disaster theory ; The incubation period ; Models of drift and disaster incubation after Turner ; Man-made disaster theory and social emancipation -- The 1980s and onward : normal accidents and high reliability organizations / Verena Schocklow and Sidney Dekker. Normal accident theory ; High reliability organizations ; Sagan and "the limits of safety" ; Further development -- The 1990s and onward : Swiss cheese and safety management systems. Swiss cheese ; Linearity, judgments, and bureaucratic order ; Swiss cheese and safety management systems -- The 2000s and onward : safety culture. The origins of safety culture ; Safety culture today ; Problems and critique -- The 2010s and onward : resilience engineering / Johan Bergstrom and Sidney Dekker. The need for resilience ; Resilience engineering as a new discipline in safety science ; Resilience ideas of Rasmussen, Woods, and Hollnagel ; Dimensions of resilience engineering ; Three analytical traps for resilience scholars to avoid
Summary How are today's 'hearts and minds' programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people's moral and mental deficits? What do Heinrich's 'unsafe acts' from the 1930's have in common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990's? Why was the reinvention of human factors in the 1940's such an important event in the development of safety thinking? What makes many of our current systems so complex and impervious to Tayloristic safety interventions? 'Foundations of Safety Science' covers the origins of major schools of safety thinking, and traces the heritage and interlinkages of the ideas that make up safety science today. Features Offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations of safety science Provides balanced treatment of approaches since the early 20th century, showing interlinkages and cross-connections Includes an overview and key points at the beginning of each chapter and study questions at the end to support teaching use Uses an accessible style, using technical language where necessary Concentrates on the philosophical and historical traditions and assumptions that underlie all safety approaches
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group platform, viewed October 2, 2023)
Subject Industrial safety -- History
Industrial accidents -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Industrial accidents
Industrial safety
Sicherheit
Industrie
Unfall
Sicherheitswissenschaft
Industrie -- Mesures de sûreté -- Gestion.
Catastrophes industrielles.
Accidents -- Responsabilité professionnelle.
Genre/Form History
Textbooks.
Form Electronic book
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