Product Description

Safety Management argues that it is the methodologies of the human sciences that are more suitable for providing a firm basis for safety management and offers new approaches to safety management in accordance with this view.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1780266 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
'A much needed and overdue academic contribution to the field of safety management…some excellent insights and arguments …very valuable reading
Ergonomics, 48 (1), 98

A much needed and overdue academic contribution to the field of safety management…some excellent insights and arguments …very valuable reading
Ergonomics, 48 (1), 98

A new perspective …distinctive…a unique resource worth buying. This book truly presents a philosophical challenge to the precepts held in the disciplines of safety management and occupational psychology.
E-Streams June 2004, Vol 7, No. 6
Essential reading for an up-to-date perspective on near miss reporting and safety management.
Risk Analysis 25, 775, June 2005

A new perspective …distinctive…a unique resource worth buying. This book truly presents a philosophical challenge to the precepts held in the disciplines of safety management and occupational psychology.
E-Streams June 2004, Vol 7, No. 6
Essential reading for an up-to-date perspective on near miss reporting and safety management.
Risk Analysis 25, 775, June 2005

This book presents a new 'Qualitative Systems Approach' to safety management, offering both greater safety and economic savings. It presents a series of methodological 'tools' whose reliability and validity have been shown through extensive work in the rail and nuclear industries and that allow organizational and systems failures to be analyzed much more effectively in terms of quantity, precision and usefulness.

This book presents a new Qualitative Systems Approach to safety management, offering both greater safety and economic savings. It presents a series of methodological tools whose reliability and validity have been shown through extensive work in the rail and nuclear industries and that allow organizational and systems failures to be analyzed much more effectively in terms of quantity, precision and usefulness.

This is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in occupational psychology, human factors, ergonomics and HCI, and the sociology of disasters and risk. It is also useful for safety managers and professionals in many safety critical firms and organizations, reliability engineers, risk managers, and human factors specialists.