Patterns In Safety Thinking: A literature Guide to Air Transportation Safety
Patterns In Safety Thinking: A literature Guide to Air Transportation Safety
Geoffrey R. McIntyreAshgate Publishing2000148pp.(hardback)ISBN 0754613224
Keywords: Publication, Safety
Safety is more than the absence of accidents. Safety has the goal of transforming the levels of risk that are inherent in all human activity, while its interdisciplinary nature extends its influence far into most corporate management and government regulatory actions. Yet few engineers have attended a safety course, conference or even a lecture in the area, suggesting that those responsible for the safe construction and operation of complex high-risk sociotechnical systems are inadequately prepared. This book is designed to meet the expressed needs of aviation safety management for a practical and concise education supplement to the safety literature. Written in a highly readable and accessible style, its features include:
detailed analysis of the forward-looking System Safety approach, with its focus on accident prevention;
classification of transportation safety literature into distinct schools of thought (Tort Law, Reliability Engineering, System Safety Engineering);
real world practical, illustrations of the theory;
the history, theory and practice of "safety management"; and
interdisciplinary thinking about "safety".
The flying public is faced with a bewildering array of aviation safety data from a diverse and ever increasing number of sources. This book is a 148 page,essential guide to the available information, and a major contribution to the international public debate on aviation safety.
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