Improving air safety through organizational learning : consequences of a technology-led model / Jose Sanchez-Alarcos Ballesteros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez-Alarcos, José, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeronautics--Safety measures.

Aeronautics.

Safety education.

Organizational learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of air safety. Air safety rates have been improving for a long time, demonstrating the effects of a good learning model at work. However, the pace of improvement has almost come to a standstill. Improving Air Safety through Organizational Learning explains this situation as being the consequence of a development model supported chiefly by information technology being introduced as an alternative to human operators, and offers a new development model, one that makes strong use of technology but at the same

Contents:

Commercial aviation : a high-risk activity

Event analysis as an improvement tool

Safety in commercial aviation : risk factors

Explanation of the reduction in the rate of learning in complex environments

Organizational learning in air safety : lessons for the future

Meaning and trust as keys to organizational learning

The future of improvements in air safety

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-58803-X

1-317-11824-3

1-317-11823-5

1-281-09908-2

9786611099084

0-7546-8594-2

9781315588032

OCLC:

476277493