Resilience Engineering Perspectives: Remaining sensitive to the possibility of failure

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Erik Hollnagel, Christopher P. Nemeth, Sidney Dekker
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Jan 1, 2008 - Transportation - 332 pages
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process. This collection deals with issues such as measurements and models, the use of procedures to ensure safety, the relation between resilience and robustness, safety management, and the use of risk analysis.
 

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THE BIRTH OF
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THE NEED FOR TRANSLATORS AND FOR
11
MEASURES OF RESILIENT PERFORMANCE
29
UNEXAMPLED EVENTS RESILIENCE AND PRA
49
SAFETY MANAGEMENT LOOKING BACK
63
WHEN RESILIENCE DOES NOT WORK
79
RULES MANAGEMENT AS SOURCE FOR LOOSE
91
A
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APPENDIX
190
RESILIENCE IN THE EMERGENCY
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A RESILIENCE
211
WHAT WENT WRONG AT THE BEATSON
225
RESILIENCE SAFETY AND TESTING
237
DOES
247
A Model of Crosschecking in a Collaborative
254
ANALYSIS OF THE SCOTTISH CASE
269

CREW RESILIENCE AND SIMULATOR TRAINING
119
UNDERLYING CONCEPTS IN ROBUSTNESS
127
STRESSSTRAIN PLOTS AS A BASIS
143
DESIGNING RESILIENT CRITICAL
159
List of Contributors
299
AUTHOR INDEX
325
SUBJECT INDEX
331
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