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Safety management : a qualtitative systems approach / John Davies ... [and others]
LIBRA HV675 .S248 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Accidents--Prevention.
- Accidents.
- Industrial safety.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 Safety, risk and responsibility 1
- Science and subjectivity 1
- The need to be safe 3
- Risk and responsibility 3
- Voluntary and involuntary action 5
- Safety and trust in organisations 8
- Better value from safety data in a world of diminishing returns 15
- Where is risk situated? 17
- 2 Safety, subjectivity and imagination 18
- Knowledge: objective or subjective? 21
- What kind of science? 23
- Relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos 24
- Causality: a property of the world, or all in the mind? 31
- Safety and imagination 36
- Justifying proactive safety 39
- 3 Predictive validity of near misses 43
- The background to the common cause hypothesis 43
- Arguments against the common cause hypothesis 48
- Testing the hypothesis 52
- Collecting and analysing minor event reports is a useful thing to do 58
- 4 Confidential reporting as an approach to collecting near miss data 59
- Why confidential reporting? 59
- Management support 60
- Incentives for reporting 63
- Preparation and planning 64
- The CIRAS reporting system 65
- 5 Numbers and words in safety management 71
- Triangulation 71
- The epistemology of incident frequency data 73
- Case study: Validatory triangulation in a safety management context 75
- Dealing with discourse 77
- 6 Hermeneutics and accident reports 79
- Hermeneutics 83
- An organisational model of human factors 88
- The CIRAS project 88
- Kinds of data 95
- From hermeneutics to action 98
- 7 Causal attribution and safety management 101
- Traditional attribution theory 102
- Functional discourse and attribution 103
- Causal investigation of accidents viewed as a functional act 106
- Attribution and safety climate/culture 111
- An attributional analysis of train drivers' explanations 113
- Attributions and implications 115
- 8 Inter-rater consensus in safety management 119
- Definitions of reliability 120
- Problem areas in testing consensus 125
- Statistical measurements of inter-rater consensus 131
- Procedures for establishing inter-rater consensus (IRC) and within-rater consensus (WRC) 136
- 9 Error taxonomies and 'cognitivism' 139
- Origins 140
- Cognitivism 140
- Connectionism 148
- 10 Information arousal theory (IAT) and train driver behaviour 153
- People: controllers of arousal 156
- Further implications 163
- Numbers from words 168
- Reliability 171
- Taxonomies 174
- Human error, strategic decision or adaptive action? 174
- It makes economic sense 176
- Science: induction versus intuition 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415303702
- 0415303710
- OCLC:
- 51477137
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