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Description for Close Calls
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive and detailed fieldwork within airlines-an industry that pioneered near-miss analysis- this book develops a clear set of practical implications and theoretical propositions regarding how all organizations can learn from 'near-miss' events and better manage risk and resilience. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 figures, 1 diagrames. BIC Classification: KNGV; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Drawing on extensive and detailed fieldwork within airlines-an industry that pioneered near-miss analysis- this book develops a clear set of practical implications and theoretical propositions regarding how all organizations can learn from 'near-miss' events and better manage risk and resilience.
Drawing on extensive and detailed fieldwork within airlines-an industry that pioneered near-miss analysis- this book develops a clear set of practical implications and theoretical propositions regarding how all organizations can learn from 'near-miss' events and better manage risk and resilience.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230220843
SKU
V9780230220843
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Carl Macrae
Carl Macrae is a social psychologist, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College London, UK, and a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellow.
Reviews for Close Calls
“Carl Macrae’s Close Calls: Managing Risk and Resilience in Airline Flight Safety is an intimate account of this learning process, broadly framed in relation to the ‘High Reliability Organisations’ literature. … Macrae’s collated insights constitute an important window into what it means to be working at the frontiers of organisational safety. … Through his work, safety scholars and risk managers ... Read more