Beyond Human Error

, by Brendan Wallace; Alastair Ross

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ISBN: 9780203491171 | 0203491173
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Copyright: 4/19/2016

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Safety and Science
Reflective Practice and Safety Practice
Abstraction and Safety Science
Causality and Accidents
Heinrich
The Myth of the Root Cause
Models of Accident Causation
References
Safety and Taxonomies
Introduction
The Purpose of a Database and a Taxonomy
The Privileged Classifier
The Correspondence Theory of Classification
Taxonomies and Safety
Applications of Taxonomy Theory
Conclusion
References
Taxonomic Consensus
Reliability and Validity
The Logic of Taxonomic Consensus
Approaches to Probability
Quantifying Taxonomic Consensus
Simple Conditional Probability for Taxonomic Consensus
Signal Detection Theory and Reliability Testing
Conclusion
References
Taxonomic Output and Validity
Traditional Analyses and Possible Alternatives
Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Problems with the Null Hypothesis Test
Hot Science
Working with Taxonomic Data
Conclusion
References
Psychology and Human Factors
Taxonomies and Psychology
The History of Cognitivism
Information Processing
Situated Cognition
Embodied Cognition
Distributed Cognition
Discursive Psychology
Conclusion
References
Cybernetics and Systems Theory
Second-Order Cybernetics
Cybernetics, Systems Theory, and Human Behavior
Cybernetics: Conclusion
Normal Accidents
Conclusion
References
Challenger and Columbia
The Challenger Disaster
Columbia
Conclusion
References
Rules and Regulations
Rules, Physics, and Cognition
Laws
Psychology
Rules and Regulations
Technical Rationality
Self-Organization
The Social View
Why Has the Accident Rate Gone Down?
Interpreting Accident Statistics
Empowerment
Conclusion
References
Conclusion
Science, Etc
References
Appendix 1 Carrying Out a Reliability Trial
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