Most approaches that contribute to the design of life-critical systems almost only consider nominal situations where procedures can be developed and used to get satisfactory operations. These kinds of approaches lead to rigid ways of doing things, and poorly address needs for flexibility, especially when things go wrong. It is not a matter of human adaptation, but a matter of human systems integration (HSI) flexibility. HSI flexibility requires cross-fertilization of appropriate experiences combined with creativity. This book provides risk management approaches and methods for combining prevention and design.
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Discusses risk management approaches and methods for combining prevention and design.
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Examines a transdisciplinary approach to risk management in design and operations of safer life-critical systems.
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Proposes an approach of work analysis during design, which enables design teams to consider HSI issues early enough to fix organizational problems upstream.
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Teaches the combination of prevention and design for safety management.
The text gathers and analyzes relevant field data to rationalize human and systems activity in various life-critical environments and workplaces, in a systemic manner in a variety of safety domains (e.g., aviation, road, navy, manufacturing, hospital, transportation, defense, sport). It further formalizes and analyze risk-taking experience, expertise, stories about critical events, scientific and professional literature data to help engineering designers, managers and health & safety specialists.
The text is primarily written for graduate students and professionals working in the fields of occupational health and safety, ergonomics, and human factors, cognitive engineering, and human-system integration.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction : Risk Taking, A Life-Critical Necessity References
Chapter 2 : From Praise of Danger to "Reasoned" Risk-Taking : A Psychological Approach to Risk-Taking
Chapter 3 : Decisions and Risks Manifesting Themselves through Movements Performed by Workers
Chapter 4 : The East 'Broken-Links' Method for Examining Risk in Sociotechnical Systems
Chapter 5 : Worksite Risk Management as A Cultural Problem : The Needs of Risk Work and Regulation to Improve Safety Culture
Chapter 6 : Risk-Taking : An Opportunity to Win in Elite Sport
Chapter 7 : Risk Taking : Submarine Experience
Chapter 8 : Risk Mitigation Practices in Aviation
Chapter 9 : Aging and Risk-Taking : An Increasing Dimension of Life-Critical Systems
Chapter 10 : Risk-Seeking in Healthcare : A Life-Critical Necessity
Chapter 11 : Risk-Seeking and The Paradox of Variability for Safety in Healthcare Resonance with R.L. Wears Text
Chapter 12 : Managing and Preventing Operational Risk-Taking at Design Time : Stories from A Human-Centered Design Project
Chapter 13 : Designing Sustainable 'Plastic' Work Systems. A Resource for Work-Related Prevention in France's Waste Management and Recycling Sector
Chapter 14 : Conclusion
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