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Operational Decision-making in High-hazard Organizations - Drawing a Line in the Sand (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,885
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Operational Decision-making in High-hazard Organizations - Drawing a Line in the Sand (Paperback): Jan Hayes

Operational Decision-making in High-hazard Organizations - Drawing a Line in the Sand (Paperback)

Jan Hayes

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This book takes a fresh look at safety decision-making by documenting and examining stories told by front-line managers in three different high-hazard industries: a chemical plant, a nuclear power station and an air-navigation service provider. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon, accident analysis has stressed the importance of excellent decision-making by those in charge out in the field. Organizations rely critically on the judgement and experience of such senior operations personnel and yet these qualities are undervalued in a business environment that emphasises documentation and measurement. Whilst operational managers are guided by rules, they also draw on their own long experience and can formulate a situation-specific 'line in the sand' to apply the experience of the operating team to complex, real-world situations that rule writers may not have foreseen. This volume refocuses our attention on the people who make these important decisions and the organizational processes that support the best choices. Jan Hayes uses her multi-disciplinary experience to draw together an account of safety decision-making that is both technically robust and yet accessible to academics, practitioners and regulators alike. Readers will see that the stories retold in this book provide a way for operational managers to share their knowledge, experience and expertise - with each other and with us.

General

Imprint: Crc Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2017
First published: 2013
Authors: Jan Hayes
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-07477-4
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Production & quality control management
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Occupational / industrial health & safety
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Management decision making > General
LSN: 1-138-07477-2
Barcode: 9781138074774

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