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Engineering a Safer World - Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Paperback)
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Engineering a Safer World - Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Paperback)
Series: Engineering a Safer World
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A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more
effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.
Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the
basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability
engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very
little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson
proposes a new approach to safety-more suited to today's complex,
sociotechnical, software-intensive world-based on modern systems
thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas
pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety
concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world
examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more
effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current
techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causality are
inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation
(Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, or STAMP), then
shows how the new model can be used to create techniques for system
safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis,
system design, safety in operations, and management of
safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques to
real-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S.
Blackhawk helicopter in the first Gulf War; the Vioxx recall; the
U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a
public water supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is
relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for
"reengineering" any large sociotechnical system to improve safety
and manage risk.
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