Foundations of Safety Science: A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters

by Sidney Dekker

Book Overview

How are today's 'hearts and minds' programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people's moral and mental deficits? What do Heinrich's 'unsafe acts' from the 1930's have in common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990's? Why was the reinvention of human factors in the 1940's such an important event in the development of safety thinking? What makes many of our current systems so complex and impervious to Tayloristic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138481785
• ISBN13: 9781138481787
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"