Navigating Safety Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs - Theory and Practice /

• Main Author: Amalberti, Ren.̌ (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; System safety.; Environmental management.; Industrial management.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Environmental Management.; Management/Business for Professionals.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6549-8

Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1 The demand for safety and its paradoxes
• 2 Human error at the centre of the debate on safety
• 3 The keys to a successful systemic approach to risk management
• 4 Human and organisational factors (HOFs): Significantly growing challenges
• 5 Conclusion: The golden rules in relation to systemic safety
• Index.