Engineering a safer world [ systems thinking applied to safety

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 sui...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leveson, Nancy (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press , c2012
Series:Engineering systems
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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