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Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
Nancy G. Leveson
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Description for Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
Paperback. Series: Engineering Systems. Num Pages: 560 pages, 113 b&w illus. BIC Classification: KNXC; TBC; TGPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 874.
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety-more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world-based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model ... Read more
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety-more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world-based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Engineering Systems
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262533690
SKU
V9780262533690
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About Nancy G. Leveson
Nancy G. Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT. An acknowledged leader in the field of safety engineering, she has worked to improve safety in nearly every industry over the past thirty years.
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