Developments in Quality and Safety tackles issues relating to quality and safety across a variety of industries. It offers new information and newly-gathered knowledge of the latest developments in these areas, presenting a contemporary approach to safety. It clarifies the deficiencies in previous aspects, methods and tools of quality and safety, and uses them to present better alternatives for future developments. The series of books is designed for both new and experienced quality and safety professionals and offers modern and creative views of quality and safety, in the shape of developments in areas of human involvement, technologies and management.
By Sasho Andonov
July 07, 2023
With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industries, is increasing on a daily basis. A thorough understanding of operations and providing safety for these complex systems has become a firm requirement ...
By Sasho Andonov
December 08, 2021
This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors, called as "safety animals," are named as black swan, gray rhino, gray swans, and invisible gorilla. The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system in the risky ...
By Sasho Andonov
September 30, 2019
The Art of Safety Auditing: A Tutorial for Regulators provides the theory and practice of auditing safety management systems implemented by the companies in risk industries. With his extensive knowledge and experiences in quality and safety, Sasho Andonov provides the tools to fill the gap in ...
By Sasho Andonov
October 18, 2017
Bow Tie Methodology (BTM) consists of two methods, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA), which are connected by a single event. The methodology is holistic and provides the tools and pre-event analysis, which is also called the risk calculations, and post-event analysis, also ...
By Sasho Andonov
October 24, 2016
This book deals with the present and future situation with Quality and Safety management Systems (QMS and SMS). It presents new ideas, points to the basic misunderstandings in the two management systems, and covers a wide range of industries, as well as providing a practical assessment of ...