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This book provides an experience-based methodological framework for risk management in design and development of life-critical systems. It will be an ideal reference text for graduate students and professionals working in the fields of occupational health and safety, ergonomics, and human factors, and cognitive engineering.
List of contents
Chapter 1 : Risk Taking, A Life-Critical Necessity
Chapter 2: From Praise Of Danger To "Reasoned" Risk-taking: A Psychological Approach To Risk-taking
Chapter 3: Decisions And Risks Manifesting Themselves Through Movements Performed By Workers
Chapter 4: The East 'broken-links' Method For Examining Risk In Sociotechnical Systems
Chapter 5: Worksite Risk Management As A Culturalissue:the Needs Of Risk Work And Regulation To Improve Safety Culture
Chapter 6: Risk-taking: An Opportunity To Win In Elite Sports
Chapter 7: Risk-taking: Submarine Experience
Chapter 8: Risk Mitigation Practices In Commercial Aviation
Chapter 9: Aging And Risk-taking:an Increasing Dimension Of Life-critical Systems
Chapter 10: Risk-seeking In Healthcare: A Life-critical Necessity
Chapter 11: Risk-seeking And The Paradox Of Variability For Safety
In Healthcare: Resonance With R.l. Wears Text
Chapter 12: Managing And Preventing Operational Risk-taking
At Design Time: Stories From A Human-centered Design Project
Chapter 13: Designing Sustainable 'plastic' Work Systems. A Resource For Work-related Prevention In France's Waste Management And Recycling Sector
Chapter 14: Conclusion
About the author
Guy André Boy, Ph.D., is a Scientist and Engineer, Fellow of INCOSE and the Air and Space Academy. He is University Professor at CentraleSupélec (Paris Saclay University) and ESTIA Institute of Technology. He was Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Design at NASA Kennedy Space Center, University Professor and Dean at Florida Institute of Technology, where he created the Human-Centered Design Institute. He was Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and former President and CEO of the European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO), France
Edwige Quillerou, Ph.D., is an Occupational Psychologist and Health & Safety Scientist at INRS, the French National Research and Safety Institute for Prevention of Occupational Accidents and Diseases. She contributes to both research and field interventions in a variety of design and work organization projects. Edwige is involved in interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in the human and social sciences as well as engineers with a view to improving the organization of prevention with respect to occupational risks through improved engineering design. She is a member of IEA (International Ergonomics Association) and INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering).
Summary
This book provides an experience-based methodological framework for risk management in design and development of life-critical systems. It will be an ideal reference text for graduate students and professionals working in the fields of occupational health and safety, ergonomics, and human factors, and cognitive engineering.
