Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers,
safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they
continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and
financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic.
One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective
ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This
lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our
knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of
high-technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for
managing the risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond
those currently available to system managers and safety
professionals. James Reason deals comprehensively with the
prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational
causes. He argues that the same general principles and management
techniques are appropriate for many different domains. These
include banks and insurance companies just as much as nuclear power
plants, oil exploration and production companies, chemical process
installations and air, sea and rail transport. Its unique
combination of principles and practicalities make this seminal book
essential reading for all whose daily business is to manage, audit
and regulate hazardous technologies of all kinds. It is relevant to
those concerned with understanding and controlling human and
organizational factors and will also interest academic readers and
those working in industrial and government agencies.
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