Managing risk : the human element
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : R B Duffey; John Walton Saull
- ناشر : Chichester, UK : John Wiley & Sons
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780470699768
Description
Definitions of risk and risk management -- The art of prediction and the creation of order -- Technical summary -- The universal learning curve -- The four echoes : power blackouts, space shuttle losses, concorde crashes, and the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island accidents -- Predicting rocket risks and refinery explosions : near misses, shuttle safety, and anti-missile defence systems effectiveness -- The probability of human error : learning in technological systems -- Eliminating mistakes : the concept of error states -- Risk assessment : dynamic events and financial risks -- Safety and risk management systems : the fifth echoes -- Risk perception : searching for the truth among all the numbers -- I must be learning.
Managing Risk: the Human Element combines descriptive and explanatory text with theoretical and mathematical analysis, offering important new concepts that can be used to improve the management of risk, trend analysis and prediction, and hence affect the accident rate in technological industries
