1st Edition
Safety Management A Qualitative Systems Approach
240 Pages
by
CRC Press
240 Pages
by
CRC Press
240 Pages
by
CRC Press
Also available as eBook on:
Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant and technical issues and downplay human factors and "subjectivity." Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Approach describes a body of theories and data... Read more
. Safety, Risk and Responsibility. Safety, Subjectivity and Imagination. Predictive Validity of Near Misses. Confidential Reporting as an Approach to Collecting Near Miss Data. Numbers and Words in Safety Management. Hermeneutics and Accident Reports. Causal Attribution and Safety Management. Inter-Rater Consensus in Safety Management. Error Taxonomies and 'Cognitivism'. Information Arousal Theory (IAT) and Train Driver Behavior. Conclusions.
Biography
Davies, John; Ross, Alastair; Wallace, Brendan; Wallace, Brendan
