Patterns In Safety Thinking

Author : Geoffrey R. McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351912587

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Patterns In Safety Thinking by Geoffrey R. McIntyre Pdf

Safety is more than the absence of accidents. Safety has the goal of transforming the levels of risk that are inherent in all human activity, while its interdisciplinary nature extends its influence far into most corporate management and government regulatory actions. Yet few engineers have attended a safety course, conference or even a lecture in the area, suggesting that those responsible for the safe construction and operation of complex high-risk socio-technical systems are inadequately prepared. This book is designed to meet the expressed needs of aviation safety management trainees for a practical and concise education supplement to the safety literature. Written in a highly readable and accessible style, its features include: ¢ detailed analysis of the forward-looking System Safety approach, with its focus on accident prevention; ¢ classification of transportation safety literature into distinct schools of thought (Tort Law, Reliability Engineering, System Safety Engineering); ¢ real world, practical, illustrations of the theory; ¢ the history, theory and practice of safety management ; ¢ inter-disciplinary thinking about safety . The flying public is faced with a bewildering array of aviation safety data from a diverse and ever increasing number of sources. This book is an essential guide to the available information, and a major contribution to the international public debate on aviation safety.

Author : Constantine Stephanidis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030300333

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HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers by Constantine Stephanidis Pdf

This year the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, which was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, in July 2019, introduced the additional option of "late-breaking work", which applied both for papers and posters with the corresponding volumes of the proceedings. The 47 late-breaking papers included in this volume were published after the conference has taken place. They were organized in the following topical sections: user experience design and evaluation; information, visualization, and decision making; virtual and augmented reality; learning and games; human and task models in HCI; and design and user experience case studies.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309187367

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Keeping Patients Safe by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on the Work Environment for Nurses and Patient Safety Pdf

Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care â€" and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.

Author : Clifton A. Ericson, II
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119101727

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Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety by Clifton A. Ericson, II Pdf

Explains in detail how to perform the most commonly used hazard analysis techniques with numerous examples of practical applications Includes new chapters on Concepts of Hazard Recognition, Environmental Hazard Analysis, Process Hazard Analysis, Test Hazard Analysis, and Job Hazard Analysis Updated text covers introduction, theory, and detailed description of many different hazard analysis techniques and explains in detail how to perform them as well as when and why to use each technique Describes the components of a hazard and how to recognize them during an analysis Contains detailed examples that apply the methodology to everyday problems

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aircraft accidents
ISBN : NASA:31769000474588

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Second Workshop on the Investigation and Reporting of Incidents and Accidents, IRIA 2003 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Felix Redmill,Tom Anderson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781846281303

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Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking by Felix Redmill,Tom Anderson Pdf

Constituents of Modern System-safety Thinking contains the invited papers presented at the Thirteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Southampton, UK in February 2005. The papers included in this volume bring together topics that are of the utmost importance in current safety thinking. The core of modern safety thinking and practice is a risk-based approach, and this is not only a common thread running throughout the papers, but is also explored in two of them. Other themes considered include the safety case, safety assessment, accident investigation, and the commonality between the processes and techniques employed in safety and security engineering. Papers contain extensive industrial experience as well as recent academic research and are presented under the headings: Independent Safety Assessment, Safety and Security, Accident Investigation, Risk and its Tolerability, Achieving and Arguing the Safety of Modular Systems, and Technologies for Dependability.

Author : Anthony J. Masys,Leo S.F. Lin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319617299

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Asia-Pacific Security Challenges by Anthony J. Masys,Leo S.F. Lin Pdf

This edited book examines the contemporary regional security concerns in the Asia-Pacific recognizing the ‘Butterfly effect’, the concept that small causes can have large effects: ‘the flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause a typhoon halfway around the world’. For many Asia-Pacific states, domestic security challenges are at least as important as external security considerations. Recent events (both natural disasters and man-made disasters) have pointed to the inherent physical, economic, social and political vulnerabilities that exist in the region. Both black swan events and persistent threats to security characterize the challenges within the Asia-Pacific region. Transnational security challenges such as global climate change, environmental degradation, pandemics, energy security, supply chain security, resource scarcity, terrorism and organized crime are shaping the security landscape regionally and globally. The significance of emerging transnational security challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region impact globally and conversely, security developments in those other regions affect the Asia-Pacific region.

Author : Geoffrey R. R. McIntyre Ph.D.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781644627846

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Gamers Going Airborne by Geoffrey R. R. McIntyre Ph.D. Pdf

Whenever ‘rare' and ‘preventable' tragic air travel events involving aircraft certified ‘safe to fly' occur, pending formal accident investigation reports, mainstream media's experts rightly assure that US domestic travel has a very low accident rate. This essay proposes that the exclusion of manufacturing and operational data from the safety narrative, presents challenges to understanding how present and future risk develops. For example, that ‘data-driven' low accident rate narrative excludes the staggering rise in near midair collisions and other ignored data, with potentially outsized consequences. This essay documented the specter of creeping accident recidivism; and transformational fleet groundings, that for the third time in four decades have questioned the behavior of the regulated and the regulator to determine how best to protect travelers. Two extremely bizarre air travel events by avid video gamers, served as an allegory of the normalcy bias that flows from the US low accident rate and the traumatic consequences of unlearned lessons. Selections from among documented events from 1974 to March 10, 2019, have been woven into a compelling story about accident recidivism and certified aircraft. So far in the new millennium, identified clusters of recurring similar air travel tragedies, worldwide, have taken over 1,300 lives. Hauntingly, from 2008 – 2017, US airspace experienced a phenomenal rise in near midair collisions and other operational data—conveniently ignored by low accident rate devotees. The theme of normalcy bias runs as a leitmotif, throughout the essay, underscored by the actions of the historical characters encountered. The low accident rate hides more than it explains, misleads, and fails to protect travelers. Safety is more than an absence of accidents, and it's only by working back from first identifying the universe of hazards that can best enable forward-looking, risk mitigation. When neither aircraft manufacturers, nor the pilots and passengers, nor safety regulatory oversight authorities, themselves, don't know what can possibly happen up there, it's a bad day for everyone! Worldwide air accident recidivism, and events excluded from the accident rate calculations, are precautionary wakeup calls: identify system-wide, sleepwalking hazardous vectors and adjust the safety narrative to reality!

Author : J. W. Konings,Hugo Priemus,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781956650

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The Future of Automated Freight Transport by J. W. Konings,Hugo Priemus,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

This book explores the many challenges faced by the development and implementation of automated freight transport systems. It offers a unique overview of current applications, developments and future perspectives. The subject of automation is not covered extensively in the existing literature on freight transport and this book aims to fill the gap.

Author : Geoffrey R. McIntyre Ph.D.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781645441588

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Deflections from Greatness by Geoffrey R. McIntyre Ph.D. Pdf

Although the prescient Founders provided a means, Article Five, to change America's two-hundred- and thirty-two-year old Constitution and democratic-liberal governance, the hard truths of political compromise, civility and Presidential leadership in ideology-driven public policy, are the stuff of 'greatness' in American civilization. Modern post-World War II social historians arguably credit President Lyndon Johnson's 1964 massive Federal government intervention and anti-poverty efforts to achieve a 'Great Society.' Others may cite President Richard Nixon's Federal intervention to protect the environment, assure clean air, drinking water and end housing discrimination. President Ronald Reagan's paradigm shift, looked to lessen government's regulatory role and instead to 'trickle down' market forces, for his resonating slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." In 2010, President Barack Obama's landmark achievement of the Affordable Care Act, provided health care coverage to over thirty million Americans. By 2017, President Donald Trump, trademarked MAGA and provided massive, deficit-ballooning, tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy, sought to repeal environmental protection, health care legislation, and auto-fuel standards; minimized the federal regulatory oversight role in air travel safety assessments; initiated trade tariffs and adopted anti-immigration, anti-refugees and anti-asylum-seeking measures. Whether at the individual self or nation level, the road to 'greatness', first either affirms or solemnly swears to the rule of law and truth telling. A road trip by a team of investigative reporters revealed many deflections (rendered in free verse poetry) from America's quest for 'greatness:' from the delusional dance of the anti-government discontents; tax avoiding corporations, billionaires and wannabe trillionaires--all protected by the world's mightiest military and judiciary; the discontented food-fighters, demanding non-discriminatory, plain language access to labels on what they eat or drink; the plundered low wage workers (many most likely undocumented) in liberal, blue cities--whose crie de coeur 'middle-up,' highlighted the income disparities of the 'haves' and the 'have-mores:' from fired American high-tech professionals demanding an end to the illegal visa abuse of lower-paid, sought-after graduates of leading foreign technical universities; to the threatened deportations of American-born children. Tragically, planet earth faces the absurd consequences of mindless self-destruction caused by man-made pollution for untaxed profits; and many other bold newer threats, including the approaching hordes of climate change refugees. Unlike the many unknowns of a Shakespearean tragedy, we know the remaining acts necessary to sustain life on planet earth's annual free ride around the sun. Yet, a despoiled earth appears inexorably poised on the path of abandonment by the trillionaire class for a new planetary home. Bon Voyage!

Author : ANDREW. HOPKINS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925894150

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ORGANISING FOR SAFETY by ANDREW. HOPKINS Pdf

Author : Jan U. Hagen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319764030

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How Could This Happen? by Jan U. Hagen Pdf

The first comprehensive reference work on error management, blending the latest thinking with state of the art industry practice on how organizations can learn from mistakes. Even today the reality of error management in some organizations is simple: “Don’t make mistakes. And if you do, you’re on your own unless you can blame someone else.” In most, it has moved on but it is still often centered around quality control, with Six Sigma Black Belts seeking to eradicate errors with an unattainable goal of zero. But the best organizations have gone further. They understand that mistakes happen, be they systemic or human. They have realized that rather than being stigmatized, errors have to be openly discussed, analyzed, and used as a source for learning. In How Could This Happen? Jan Hagen collects insights from the leading academics in this field – covering the prerequisites for error reporting, such as psychological safety, organizational learning and innovation, safety management systems, and the influence of senior leadership behavior on the reporting climate. This research is complemented by contributions from practitioners who write about their professional experiences of error management. They provide not only ideas for implementation but also offer an inside view of highly demanding work environments, such as flight operations in the military and operating nuclear submarines. Every organization makes mistakes. Not every organization learns from them. It’s the job of leaders to create the culture and processes that enable that to happen. Hagen and his team show you how.

Author : Nancy G. Leveson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262297301

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Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G. Leveson Pdf

A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety—more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world—based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causality are inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, or STAMP), then shows how the new model can be used to create techniques for system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safety in operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques to real-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first Gulf War; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a public water supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for “reengineering” any large sociotechnical system to improve safety and manage risk.

Author : Anne R. Kapuscinski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Freshwater fishes
ISBN : MINN:31951D02393677Y

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Genetic Methods for Biological Control of Non-native Fish in the Gila River Basin by Anne R. Kapuscinski Pdf

Author : Eric Carlton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351554862

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Patterns of Belief by Eric Carlton Pdf

The principle purpose of Religious Education has traditionally been to instruct and inform, with discussion and questioning occupying a secondary position. This traditional approach gives overwhelming emphasis to the historical aspects of religion, and not only fails to put into perspective the issues raised by religion today, but also takes no account of the growing movement in schools towards learning by enquiry and questioning rather than by the accumulation of stated facts. This title, first published in 1973, explores the ways in which religion can be approached from a more sociological standpoint, and aims to encourage the reader to examine religion in a more objective manner. The wide-ranging and exploratory theme of this book makes it ideal for follow-up work and suggestions for further study are provided after each chapter. This title will be of interest to teachers and students of Religious Studies.