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  title info:
    title: Engineering a safer world [
    sub title: systems thinking applied to safety
  name:
    name part: Leveson, Nancy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Massachusetts
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: c2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: electronic resource]
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 534 p.) : ill
  abstract: Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineeringtechniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, havechanged very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a newapproach to safety--more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world--basedon modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950saerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively onreal-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, lessexpensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causalityare inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic AccidentModel and Processes, or STAMP), then then shows how the new model can be used to create techniquesfor system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safetyin operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques toreal-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first GulfWar; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a publicwater supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering,offering techniques for "reengineering" any large sociotechnical system to improve safetyand manage risk.
  table of contents: 1. Why do we need something different? -- 2. Questioning the foundations of traditional safety engineering -- 3. System theory and its relationship to safety -- 4. A systems-theoretic theory view of casualty -- 5. A friendly fire accident -- 6. Engineering and operating safer system using STAMP -- 7. Fundamentals -- 8. STPA : a new hazard analysis technique -- 9. Safety-guided design -- 10. Integrating safety into system engineering -- 11. Analyzing accidents and incidents (CAST) -- 12. Controlling safety during operations -- 13. Managing safety and the safety culture -- 14. SUBSAFE : an example of a successful safety program
  note: Nancy Leveson
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: System safety
  classification: T55 .L48 2012
  identifier: 0262016621
  identifier: 0262298244 (e-book)
  identifier: 9780262016629
  identifier: 9780262298247 (e-book)
  record info:
    record creation date: 140102
    record change date: 20140320093000.0
    record identifier: 0000086005