Safety Differently

Author : Sidney Dekker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482242001
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety Differently written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resu

Author : Erik Hollnagel
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317059794
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety-I and Safety-II written by Erik Hollnagel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low as possible, or as low as is reasonably practicable. This means that safety management must start from the manifestations of the absence of safety and that - paradoxically - safety is measured by counting the number of cases where it fails rather than by the number of cases where it succeeds. This unavoidably leads to a reactive approach based on responding to what goes wrong or what is identified as a risk - as something that could go wrong. Focusing on what goes right, rather than on what goes wrong, changes the definition of safety from ’avoiding that something goes wrong’ to ’ensuring that everything goes right’. More precisely, Safety-II is the ability to succeed under varying conditions, so that the number of intended and acceptable outcomes is as high as possible. From a Safety-II perspective, the purpose of safety management is to ensure that as much as possible goes right, in the sense that everyday work achieves its objectives. This means that safety is managed by what it achieves (successes, things that go right), and that likewise it is measured by counting the number of cases where things go right. In order to do this, safety management cannot only be reactive, it must also be proactive. But it must be proactive with regard to how actions succeed, to everyday acceptable performance, rather than with regard to how they can fail, as traditional risk analysis does. This book analyses and explains the principles behind both approaches and uses this to consider the past and future of safety management practices. The analysis makes use of common examples and cases from domains such as aviation, nuclear power production, process management and health care. The final chapters explain the theoret

Author : Clive Lloyd
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000192725
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Next Generation Safety Leadership written by Clive Lloyd and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author's years of experience in high-risk industries. The book provides safety leaders and their organisations with a compelling case for change. A key predictor of safety performance is trust, and its associated components of integrity, ability and benevolence (care). The next generation of safety leaders will take the profession forward by creating trust and psychological safety. The book provides safety leaders with actionable goals to enable positive change and translates academic languages into practical applications. It leaves the reader with a clear strategy to move forward in developing a safety plan and utilizes stories, humor, and case studies set in high-risk industries. Written primarily for the safety community and can be used to influence day to day safety operations in high-risk organisations.

Author : Sidney Dekker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409440605
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Culture written by Sidney Dekker and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many organizations see the value of creating a just culture they struggle when it comes to developing it. In this Second Edition, Dekker expands his views, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. Dekker also introduces new material on ethics and on caring for the' second victim' (the professional at the centre of the incident). Consequently, we have a natural evolution of the author's ideas.

Author : Sidney Dekker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351942913
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drift into Failure written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.

Author : Sidney Dekker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 143985226X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patient Safety written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors

Author : Rod Ritchie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety Performance Reimagined written by Rod Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reimagines how safety performance is done. The two authors share case studies and stories from decades of experience working with companies globally to create sustainable safety performance in high-risk operations. It takes a practitioner's approach to translate academic theory into practical steps that can be used from the boardroom to the frontline. Safety is ultimately about people. Safety Performance Reimagined identifies the need for a sociotechnical approach and introduces the concept of 4-Dimensional Safety which successfully navigates the complex interplay between people, technology, systems, the structures, and the markets they operate in. How do leaders and the people conducting operations in complex environments create resilient, safe, and sustainable performance? The conventional approach fails to equip organizations to handle the complex interplay between people and technology in workplaces. Safety Differently, Safety-II, and HOP have all contributed to answering the "what's missing" question. They address the Why and the What of the New View of safety, but there is one more piece that needs more exploration--the How.This book provides proven practical solutions and outlines 'How' organizations can achieve sustainable safety performance.

Author : Sidney Dekker
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1410612066
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Questions About Human Error written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-12-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Questions About Human Error asks the type of questions frequently posed in incident and accident investigations, people's own practice, managerial and organizational settings, policymaking, classrooms, Crew Resource Management Training, and error research. It is one installment in a larger transformation that has begun to identify both deep-rooted constraints and new leverage points of views of human factors and system safety. The ten questions about human error are not just questions about human error as a phenomenon, but also about human factors and system safety as disciplines, and where they stand today. In asking these questions and sketching the answers to them, this book attempts to show where current thinking is limited--where vocabulary, models, ideas, and notions are constraining progress. This volume looks critically at the answers human factors would typically provide and compares/contrasts them with current research insights. Each chapter provides directions for new ideas and models that could perhaps better cope with the complexity of the problems facing human error today. As such, this book can be used as a supplement for a variety of human factors courses.

Author : Scott Douglas Sagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213062
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Safety written by Scott Douglas Sagan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl and the Exxon Valdez remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. In this provocative book, Scott Sagan challenges such optimism. Sagan's research into formerly classified archives penetrates the veil of safety that has surrounded U.S. nuclear weapons and reveals a hidden history of frightening "close calls" to disaster.

Author : Craig Marriott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351364669
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Safety Quo written by Craig Marriott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety is broken. The people who are responsible for helping you stay safe should be at the top of your Christmas card list, but all too often they are despised, ridiculed and ignored. But safety management is beginning to be challenged. Businesses have begun to realise that what they have been doing is no longer providing any additional value. The same issues are repeatedly raised by corporate leadership: How do we get our workforce engaged in safety? How do we improve safety systems to gain commitment from all employees? How do we improve safety understanding to make the case for change? How do we embed safety as an integral part of culture in an environment of ongoing change and cost pressure? Challenging the Safety Quo makes the case for change based on stagnating performance, identifies areas where there are problems and proposes alternative ways to progress. Provocative but practical, it outlines the business benefits to be gained from putting in place the right approaches to managing safety, although not in the way traditionally presented by most safety managers. This book translates theory into practice; putting an accessible, practical and usable spin on cutting-edge thinking in safety.