عنوان

Safety management

(Number (ISBN

9786610094844

Country Code

IR

Number

ebook4973

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

Safety management

General Material Designation

[Electronic Resource]

Other Title Information

:a qualitative systems approach

First Statement of Responsibility

/ John Davies .. [and others]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 220 pages

Other Physical Details

: illustrations ; 24 cm

Text of Note

Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).

Text of Note

GMD: electronic resource.

Text of Note

e

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-215) and index.

Text of Note

Safety, risk and responsibility -- Science and subjectivity -- The need to be safe -- Risk and responsibility -- Voluntary and involuntary action -- Safety and trust in organisations -- Better value from safety data in a world of diminishing returns -- Where is risk situated? -- Safety, subjectivity and imagination -- Knowledge: objective or subjective? -- What kind of science? -- Relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos -- Causality: a property of the world, or all in the mind? -- Safety and imagination -- Justifying proactive safety -- Predictive validity of near misses -- The background to the common cause hypothesis -- Arguments against the common cause hypothesis -- Testing the hypothesis -- Collecting and analysing minor event reports is a useful thing to do -- Confidential reporting as an approach to collecting near miss data -- Why confidential reporting? -- Management support -- Incentives for reporting -- Preparation and planning -- The CIRAS reporting system -- Numbers and words in safety management -- Triangulation -- The epistemology of incident frequency data -- Case study: Validatory triangulation in a safety management context -- Dealing with discourse -- Hermeneutics and accident reports -- Hermeneutics -- An organisational model of human factors -- The CIRAS project -- Kinds of data -- From hermeneutics to action -- Causal attribution and safety management -- Traditional attribution theory -- Functional discourse and attribution -- Causal investigation of accidents viewed as a functional act -- Attribution and safety climate/culture -- An attributional analysis of train drivers' explanations -- Attributions and implications -- Inter-rater consensus in safety management -- Definitions of reliability -- Problem areas in testing consensus -- Statistical measurements of inter-rater consensus -- Procedures for establishing inter-rater consensus (IRC) and within-rater consensus (WRC) -- Error taxonomies and 'cognitivism' -- Origins -- Cognitivism -- Connectionism -- Information arousal theory (IAT) and train driver behaviour -- People: controllers of arousal -- Further implications -- Numbers from words -- Reliability -- Taxonomies -- Human error, strategic decision or adaptive action? -- It makes economic sense -- Science: induction versus intuition.

Variant Title

CRKN - Taylor & Francis ebooks

Accidents--Prevention

Industrial safety.

Electronic books.--local

Number

Class number

Davies, John Booth� 1944

Taylor & Francis

MyiLibrary

Country

ایران

Call Number

363.1

Date and Hour of Consultation and Access

0203403223.pdf

Electronic Format Type

0

old catalog

e

BL

1

a

Y