Sidney Dekker

Foundations of Safety Science (eBook, ePUB)

A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations of safety science and provides balanced treatment of all approaches since the early 20th century, showing interlinkages and cross-connections between the approaches.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351059770
• Artikelnr.: 56845884

Autorenporträt

Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is professor of social science at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, where he runs the Safety Science Innovation Lab. He is also Professor (Hon.) of psychology at The University of Queensland, and Professor (Hon.) of human factors and patient safety at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane. Previously, he was Professor of human factors and system safety at Lund University in Sweden. After becoming full professor, he learned to fly the Boeing 737, and worked part-time as an airline pilot out of Copenhagen. He is author of, most recently: The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age (2017); Just Culture: Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization (2016); Safety Differently (2015); The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' (2014); Second Victim (2013); Drift into Failure (2011); Patient Safety (2011). More at sidneydekker.com

Inhaltsangabe

The 1900s and Onward: Beginnings. The 1910s and Onward: Taylor and
Proceduralization. The 1920s and Onward: Accident-Prone. The 1930s and
Onward: Heinrich and Behavior-Based Safety. The 1940s and Onward: Human
Factors and Cognitive Systems Engineering. The 1950s, 1960s and Onward:
System Safety. The 1970s and Onward: Man-Made Disasters. The 1980s and
Onward: Normal Accidents and High Reliability Organizations. The 1990s and
Onward: Swiss Cheese and Safety Management Systems. The 2000s and Onward:
Safety Culture. The 2010s and Onward: Resilience Engineering. Postscript.