Know the Risk : Learning from errors and accidents: safety and risk in today's technology
Romney. Duffey
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Burlington : : Elsevier Science, , 2002.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (259 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Preface; Dedication and Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Introduction: Are You Safe?; Chapter 1. Measuring Safety; 1.1 Safety in Numbers: The Statistics and Measures of Death and Risk; 1.2 Experience Counts: Accumulating Experience; 1.3 Error and Accident Rates: The Instantaneous, Accumulated, and Constant Rates; Chapter 2. Traveling in Safety; 2.1 The Crashes of Aircraft: The Concorde; 2.2 The Sinking of Ships: Titanic and Today; 2.3 The Safety of Roads: Accidents with Cars and Trucks; 2.4 The Railways: From the Rocket to Red Lights at Danger; Chapter 3. Working in Safety. - 3.1 Industrial Errors and Chernobyl3.2 Almost Completely Safe Systems; 3.3 Using a Bucket: Errors in Mixing at the JCO Plant; 3.4 Chemical and Nuclear Plants; 3.5 Human Error at Work; Chapter 4. Living in Safety; 4.1 Risky Choices; 4.2 Medical Safety: Misadministration, Malpractice, Drugs, and Operations; 4.3 Terror in Technology; 4.4 Drinking Water: Walkerton and Sydney's Risk; 4.5 Accidental Deaths and Incidental Insurance; Chapter 5. Error Management: Strategies for Reducing Risk; 5.1 Quality Management and the Dream of Zero Defects. - 5.2 A Learning Environment: Safety and Quality Management5.3 Measuring and Managing Our Risk: In a Nutshell; 5.4 Speculations on the Active Minimum Error Rate; 5.5 Universal Learning Curves: Validating the Theory; 5.6 Errors and Technology: Are You Safe?; Appendix A. Universal Learning Curves and the Exponential Model for Errors, Incidents, and Accidents; Appendix B. Extracts from Event Investigations and Inquiries; Appendix C. References, Bibliography, and Sources; Nomenclature; Index; Color Plate Section. - We live in a technological world, exposed to many risks and errors and the fear of death. Know the Risk shows us how we can learn from the many errors and tragic accidents which have plagued our developing technological world.This breakthrough volume presents a new concept and theory that shows how errors can and should be analyzed so that learning and experience are accounted for. The authors show that, by using a universal learning curve, errors can be tracked and managed so that they are reduced to the smallest number possible.The authors have devoted a number of years to ga
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| ISBN | 0750675969
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