Blame Machine - Why Human Error Causes Accidents

Zusatztext "I cannot recommend this book highly enough."- Donald Muir in HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK! December 2004"...a good book..."Trevor Kletz in THE CHEMICAL ENGINEER! IChemE! March 2004 Informationen zum Autor R.B. Whittingham Klappentext Describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring! but potentially avoidable! human errors. This work shows how such errors are preventable. It also describes the existence of a 'blame culture' in many organisations! which focuses on individual human error whilst ignoring the system failures that caused it. Zusammenfassung Describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. This work shows how such errors are preventable. It also describes the existence of a 'blame culture' in many organisations, which focuses on individual human error whilst ignoring the system failures that caused it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Understanding Human Error To Err is Human. Errors in Practice. Latent Errors and Violations. Human Reliability Analysis. Human Error Modelling. Human Error in Event Sequences. Part 2: Accident Case Studies Organizational and Management Errors. Design Errors. Maintenance Errors. Active Errors in Railway Operations. Active Errors in Aviation. Violations. Incident Response Errors. Conclusions. Appendix: Train Protection Systems. Index.

Product details

• Authors: R. B. Whittingham, R.b. Whittingham, Robert Whittingham, Robert B. Whittingham, Whittingham Robert
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2003
• EAN: 9780750655101
• ISBN: 978-0-7506-5510-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Risk assessment, Health & safety issues, Health and safety in the workplace, Civil engineering, surveying and building