Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era, Second Edition
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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.
In addition to new material covering changes in the field during the past decade, the book takes a new approach to discussing safety. The previous edition looked critically at the answers human factors would typically provide and compared/contrasted them with current research and insights at that time. The edition explains how to turn safety from a bureaucratic accountability back into an ethical responsibility for those who do our dangerous work, and how to embrace the human factor not as a problem to control, but as a solution to harness.
See What’s in the New Edition:
- New approach reflects changes in the field
- Updated coverage of system safety and technology changes
- Latest human factors/ergonomics research applicable to safety
Organizations, companies, and industries are faced with new demands and pressures resulting from the dynamics and nature of the modern marketplace and from the development and introduction of new technologies. This new era calls for a different kind of safety thinking, a thinking that sees people as the source of diversity, insight, creativity, and wisdom about safety, not as the source of risk that undermines an otherwise safe system. It calls for a kind of thinking that is quicker to trust people and mistrust bureaucracy, and that is more committed to actually preventing harm than to looking good. This book takes a forward-looking and assertively progressive view that prepares you to resolve current safety issues in any field.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 2nd edition (30 July 2014), Routledge |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 312 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1482241994 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1482241990 |
| Dimensions | 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.66 cm |
by Fiona
Good book but a but dry as you would expect with this subject
by Andrew Leisk
What a book, can be difficult to read in places – too technical – but I am still thinking about it. It has been a game changer for me when it comes to safety. Now when ever I hear of accidents or things going wrong I immediately think ’cause an effect’ is the Old Way , we need to be looking at ‘Why’ the’ New Way’. Well done Sydney Dekker you are an absolute master in your game. An absolute must-read for any body connected with safety – and those who are not.
by AndyF
A must read for anybody engaged in OH&S. Or anybody interested in human behaviour. A game changer.
by Leviticus
One of the first Sydney Dekker Pubs I purchased, keep an open mind there are similar theories
by Paul Brazier
A long read, but interesting