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List of contents
Contents: Part I Errors and Complex Systems: Introduction; Errors, complex systems, accidents, and investigations. Part II Antecedents: Equipment; The operator; The company and the regulator; Maintenance and inspection; Multi-operator systems; Culture. Part III Data and Data Analysis: System recorders; Written documentation; Interviews; Analysis. Part IV Issues: Situation awareness and decision making; Automation. Part V Applying the Data: Case study; Final thoughts; References; Index.
About the author
Barry Strauch has lectured and taught human factors, aircraft accident investigation techniques, and human error to accident investigators, graduate students, and government and industry officials throughout the world. He is an adjunct faculty member of the psychology department of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, an instructor at George Washington University's aviation management certificate program in Washington, DC, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Aviation Psychology. He has been with the National Transportation Safety Board for over 18 years as a human performance investigator, major aircraft accident investigator in charge, chief of the human performance division, and currently, Assistant Director for Instruction of the NTSB Academy. He has investigated accidents in all major transportation modes, involving vehicles ranging from passenger trains, to Boeing 747s, to nuclear attack submarines. He earned a PhD in educational psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and holds a commercial pilot certificate, with an instrument aeroplane rating.
Summary
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2002 book. Utilizing aviation accidents for most of his examples, but stressing the applicability of the material to any investigation of the causes of human error in transportation and industrial systems, Strauch (psychology, George Mason U. and aviation management
