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Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations
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If human error only starts to explain how accidents happen in complex, adaptive systems, what does the rest of the explanation look like? And what can be done as a result? If complex systems are fundamentally different from merely complicated ones, what does this mean for us ? the people who have to live and work in them?
Through a reanalysis of real events, this book integrates recent thinking from psychology, resilience engineering, complexity theory and cybernetics.
Intimidated? Don?t be.
The result is a clear story of why people do what they do, how they mostly get it right, why they sometimes get it wrong, where safety really comes from, and why and how organisations need to fundamentally change their assumptions about people if they want to become safer.
For most of us, most of the time, going to work is a safe and uneventful activity. Sometimes, though, despite doing our usual best to act responsibly, we may end up as unwitting participants or bystanders ? or perhaps victims ? in things that go wrong. This book provides a structured approach to understanding how and why this happens, and how to adjust our thinking at both individual and organisational levels to deal with the many, ever-present influences on our behaviour at work.
KEY FEATURES
- How to improve operational safety via human behaviour
- How to manage human behaviour and motivate success
- Explores everyday issues of people at work and what can go wrong
- Practical guidance for all safety-critical industries
- Real-life stories
Aimed at all safety-critical sectors, including aviation, chemical, defence, healthcare, highways, maritime, nuclear, rail and space.
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- Number of Pages:
- 288
- ISBN:
- 9780115535352
- Published Date:
- November 2025
- Publication Date:
- September 2017
- Author:
The Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- Book Height:
- 0 mm
- Book Width:
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