Risky Work Environments: Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems

by Pascal Béguin

Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident investigation, regulation, operation) and their consequences for operational performance. The role of rules and regulations is explored, considering the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754676099
• ISBN13: 9780754676096
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"