Safety differently human factors for a new era

The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dekker, Sidney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 2015
Edition:Second edition
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resulted in new roles, decisions, and vulnerabilities whilst practitioners are also faced with new levels of complexity, adaptation, and constraints. It is becoming increasingly apparent that conventional approaches to safety and human factors are not equipped to cope with these challenges and that a new era in safety is necessary
Physical Description:xv, 296 pages
ISBN:9781482242003