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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press ,
c2012
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| 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