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Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in
the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate. Yet
healthcare and aviation differ in many ways, as do the vital
communications shared among members of clinical teams. Aviation
team communication should, then, be understood in terms of what
lessons will benefit those who work in healthcare. In Improving
Healthcare Team Communication, renowned experts provide insights
from 'sharp end' operator research in high-hazard sectors that shed
light on the performance of cognitive tasks including resource
availability assessment, allocation, anticipation, prediction,
trade-off decisions, speculation and negotiation. The book reports
on recent field research to address what is known, and what needs
to be learned, about team communication among operators. Students,
clinicians and healthcare managers can find answers in it to the
questions they face daily. How can healthcare information be better
shared? What can we expect from its improvement, and how do we get
there? Lessons learned from team communication research and
experience in aviation and healthcare will point the way to
improved patient safety.
Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience
Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience
Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of
the field to include policy and organization studies, and
articulates aspects of resilience beyond initial definitions: -
Policy and Organization explores public policy and organizational
aspects of resilience and how they aid or inhibit preparation and
restoration - Models and Measures addresses thoughts on ways to
measure resilience and model systems to detect desirable, and
undesirable, results - Elements and Traits examines features of
systems and how they affect the ability to prepare for and recover
from significant challenges - Applications and Implications
examines how resilience plays out in the living laboratory of
real-world operations. Preparation and Restoration addresses issues
such as the nature of resilience; the similarities and differences
between resilience and traditional ideas of system performance; how
systems cope with varying demands and sometimes succeed and
sometimes fail; how an organization's ways of preparing before
critical events can enable or impede restoration; the trade-offs
that are needed for systems to operate and survive; instances of
brittle or resilient systems; how work practices affect resilience;
the relationship between resilience and safety; and what improves
or erodes resilience. This volume is valuable reading for those who
create and operate systems that must not only survive, but thrive,
in the face of challenge.
This is the fifth book published within the Ashgate Studies in
Resilience Engineering series. The first volume introduced
resilience engineering broadly. The second and third volumes
established the research foundation for the real-world applications
that then were described in the fourth volume: Resilience
Engineering in Practice. The current volume continues this
development by focusing on the role of resilience in the
development of solutions. Since its inception, the development of
resilience engineering as a concept and a field of practice has
insisted on expanding the scope from a preoccupation with failure
to include also the acceptable everyday functioning of a system or
an organisation. The preoccupation with failures and adverse
outcomes focuses on situations where something goes wrong and the
tries to keep the number of such events and their (adverse)
outcomes as low as possible. The aim of resilience engineering and
of this volume is to describe how safety can change from being
protective to become productive and increase the number of things
that go right by improving the resilience of the system.
Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience
Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience
Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of
the field to include policy and organization studies, and
articulates aspects of resilience beyond initial definitions: -
Policy and Organization explores public policy and organizational
aspects of resilience and how they aid or inhibit preparation and
restoration - Models and Measures addresses thoughts on ways to
measure resilience and model systems to detect desirable, and
undesirable, results - Elements and Traits examines features of
systems and how they affect the ability to prepare for and recover
from significant challenges - Applications and Implications
examines how resilience plays out in the living laboratory of
real-world operations. Preparation and Restoration addresses issues
such as the nature of resilience; the similarities and differences
between resilience and traditional ideas of system performance; how
systems cope with varying demands and sometimes succeed and
sometimes fail; how an organization's ways of preparing before
critical events can enable or impede restoration; the trade-offs
that are needed for systems to operate and survive; instances of
brittle or resilient systems; how work practices affect resilience;
the relationship between resilience and safety; and what improves
or erodes resilience. This volume is valuable reading for those who
create and operate systems that must not only survive, but thrive,
in the face of challenge.
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and
successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying
process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex,
underspecified and therefore partly unpredictable work
environments. Therefore safety can no longer be ensured by
constraining performance and eliminating risks. Instead, it is
necessary to actively manage how people and organizations adjust
what they do to meet the current conditions of the workplace, by
trading off efficiency and thoroughness and by making sacrificing
decisions. The Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series
promulgates new methods, principles and experiences that can
complement established safety management approaches, providing
invaluable insights and guidance for practitioners and researchers
alike in all safety-critical domains. While the Studies pertain to
all complex systems they are of particular interest to high hazard
sectors such as aviation, ground transportation, the military,
energy production and distribution, and healthcare. Published
periodically within this series will be edited volumes titled
Resilience Engineering Perspectives. The first volume, Remaining
Sensitive to the Possibility of Failure, presents a collection of
20 chapters from international experts. This collection deals with
important issues such as measurements and models, the use of
procedures to ensure safety, the relation between resilience and
robustness, safety management, and the use of risk analysis. The
final six chapters utilise the report from a serious medical
accident to illustrate more concretely how resilience engineering
can make a difference, both to the understanding of how accidents
happen and to what an organisation can do to become more resilient.
Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in
the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate. Yet
healthcare and aviation differ in many ways, as do the vital
communications shared among members of clinical teams. Aviation
team communication should, then, be understood in terms of what
lessons will benefit those who work in healthcare. In Improving
Healthcare Team Communication, renowned experts provide insights
from 'sharp end' operator research in high-hazard sectors that shed
light on the performance of cognitive tasks including resource
availability assessment, allocation, anticipation, prediction,
trade-off decisions, speculation and negotiation. The book reports
on recent field research to address what is known, and what needs
to be learned, about team communication among operators. Students,
clinicians and healthcare managers can find answers in it to the
questions they face daily. How can healthcare information be better
shared? What can we expect from its improvement, and how do we get
there? Lessons learned from team communication research and
experience in aviation and healthcare will point the way to
improved patient safety.
Human Factors Methods for Design is a comprehensive tool to ensure that research and development is human-centred. Human-centred design requires good research into human factors: what people can and cannot do, will and will not do. This text is an easy-to-use, in-depth guide for both professionals and students that describes the nature, procedures and methods of human factors research in the development process. It gives an overview of human behaviour and physiology. It describes roles of human factors and design in the development process including influences that the researcher encounters. It offers guidance on research methods, how to choose them and how to perform them. It also examines the practical implications of cost-effectiveness and how to communicate with others about human factors issues and research. Fifteen examples show how to apply the book's approach to software and product development. Human Factors Methods for Design is a valuable introduction for students, an ongoing reference for practising professionals, and a stimulating primer for readers who are interested in the use of technology to serve human needs.
Resilience Engineering (RE) studies have successfully identified
and described many instances of resilient performance in high
hazard sectors as well as in the far more frequent cases where
people and organisations cope with the uncertainties of daily
operations. Since RE was first described in 2006, a steady
accumulation of insights and efforts have provided the basis for
practical tools and methods. This development has been documented
by a series of texts in the Resilience Engineering Perspectives
series as well as by a growing number of papers and reports. This
book encapsulates the essential practical lessons learned from the
use of Resilience Engineering (RE) for over ten years. The main
contents are a series of chapters written by those who have been
instrumental in these applications. To increase the value for the
reader, each chapter will include: rationale for the overall
approach; data sought and reason(s) for choosing; data sources
used, data analyses performed, and how recommendations were made
and turned into practice. Serving as a reference for practitioners
who want to analyse, support, and manage resilient performance,
this book also advances research into RE by inquiring why work goes
well in unpredictable environments, to improve work performance, or
compensate for deficiencies.
Resilience Engineering (RE) studies have successfully identified
and described many instances of resilient performance in high
hazard sectors as well as in the far more frequent cases where
people and organisations cope with the uncertainties of daily
operations. Since RE was first described in 2006, a steady
accumulation of insights and efforts have provided the basis for
practical tools and methods. This development has been documented
by a series of texts in the Resilience Engineering Perspectives
series as well as by a growing number of papers and reports. This
book encapsulates the essential practical lessons learned from the
use of Resilience Engineering (RE) for over ten years. The main
contents are a series of chapters written by those who have been
instrumental in these applications. To increase the value for the
reader, each chapter will include: rationale for the overall
approach; data sought and reason(s) for choosing; data sources
used, data analyses performed, and how recommendations were made
and turned into practice. Serving as a reference for practitioners
who want to analyse, support, and manage resilient performance,
this book also advances research into RE by inquiring why work goes
well in unpredictable environments, to improve work performance, or
compensate for deficiencies.
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