Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Approach

by John Davies, Alastair Ross, Brendan Wallace, Wrigh

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780203403228
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Davies, John; Ross, Alastair; Wallace, Brendan; Wallace, Brendan

Table of Contents

. Safety, Risk and Responsibility. Safety, Subjectivity and Imagination. Predictive Validity of Near Misses. Confidential Reporting as an Approach to Collecting Near Miss Data. Numbers and Words in Safety Management. Hermeneutics and Accident Reports. Causal Attribution and Safety Management. Inter-Rater Consensus in Safety Management. Error Taxonomies and 'Cognitivism'. Information Arousal Theory (IAT) and Train Driver Behavior. Conclusions.