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James Reason - Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents - 9781840141054 - V9781840141054
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Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

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Description for Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents Paperback. This is a practical book aimed at professional managers and engineers in all industries where the risks of accidents are real, and the costs massive, for example transportation, nuclear, chemical and oil extraction. The text aims to show how these challenges can be met and risks minimized. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 line figures, 30 shaded figures. BIC Classification: KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510. 200 pages, 10 line figures, 30 shaded figures. This is a practical book aimed at professional managers and engineers in all industries where the risks of accidents are real, and the costs massive, for example transportation, nuclear, chemical and oil extraction. The text aims to show how these challenges can be met and risks minimized. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. BIC Classification: KNXC. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 19. Weight: 514.
Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of high-technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for managing the risks of such organizational accidents ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Company
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840141054
SKU
V9781840141054
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3

About James Reason
James Reason is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Manchester, England. He is consultant to numerous organizations throughout the world, sought after as a keynote speaker at international conferences and author of several renowned books including Human Error (CUP, 1990).

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’The most important characteristic of Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents is that it focuses on the organizational aspects of error, rather than simply focusing on the operator. This is an important shift in the principles of error management in the aviation environment and Professor Reason poses a number of interesting dilemmas for both managers and operators alike...provides some ... Read more

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