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Book review 'This brilliant book combines deeply personal insights and scholarly work, brought to bear on the important case of the Costa Concordia ship disaster. It's full of riveting stories about shipping, punctuated by cool-headed analyses of mistakes and learning in general. Nippin's labour of love will make everyone who reads the work a better, more interesting person.' Lee Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University Author of Mission Improbable About the book Are we learning from accidents? Dr Nippin Anand's research into the Costa Concordia disaster and his interviews with Captain Schettino suggest not. The answer to the problem of learning lies not so much in designing fail-safe technologies and user-friendly systems as in questioning our fears, myths, beliefs, rituals, worldviews and imagination about risk and safety. When we recognise the mythical and non-rational nature of risk and safety beliefs, our focus will shift from counting and controlling hazards towards pathways that make us humble, curious, doubtful and conscious about the human 'being'. When we begin to accept that humans are fallible, we search for better ways to humanise the risks and relate to people. Through a lived journey of dissonance, disturbance, learning and change, this book offers an alternative pathway to wisdom in risk intelligence, and a method to tackle risks in an uncertain world. About the author Dr Nippin Anand specialises in the relevance of culture, belief, myth, and metaphors (language) in the areas of risk, safety and organisational learning. Nippin is a licensed master mariner (ship captain). He holds a PhD in social sciences and anthropology, a master's degree in economics and social psychology. Nippin studies mythology, religion, anthropology, spirituality, neurosciences, depth psychology, linguistics, and semiotics (study of signs and symbols) to broaden his understanding of human 'being'.

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Anybody genuinely seeking to understand risks from a moral, commercial, reputational, or legal perspective should take the time to reflect on the perspective that Nippin offers us. Greg Smith, Internationally Acclaimed Lawyer Author of the book PaperSafe This brilliant book combines deeply personal insights and scholarly work, brought to bear on the important case of the Costa Concordia ship disaster. It's full of riveting stories about shipping, punctuated by cool-headed analyses of mistakes and learning in general. Nippin Novellus' labor of love will make everyone who reads the work a better, more interesting person. Lee Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University. Author of the Book Mission Improbable Are we learning from accidents, and if so, how? I can't think of a better person than Dr Nippin Anand to guide us through these essential questions. His work on safety and risk perception in the maritime domain, based on years of contemplation and first-hand insights into the COSTA CONCORDIA disaster, will serve to enlighten us all. Thomas Davidsen, Head of Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board The book opens up the territory to learn from accidents-terrain very often bypassed by mainstream literature. The author then leads the reader to a question that could be the very basis of just what learning involves and how it could take place in the wreckage of accidents. Thus, the book opens new routes to question and reflect, exploring with critical eyes prejudices and assumptions most of the time unconsciously closing us to understand and narrate accidents. It is one of a kind, giving elaborated information on how to draw practical learning outcomes from these accidents. The book is not at all about identifying problems, but rather a suite of pragmatic methods, intuitive tools, and powerful philosophy given by the author. That applies to accidents, where learning from the broader experiences of life insists on a frame of ethics and rigorous inquiry method to truly understand the human condition in its full fallibility. Professor Riana Steen, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School It is frustrating when human error and not following procedures is the inevitable finding of accident investigations. Anand comments, 'But in those instances, we should learn to recognise that it is much more than just the reluctance of an institution or an organisation to go beyond rule compliance. It is the ethics of risk and safety.' He ends by encouraging us to not only walk around to observe compliance over physical risks, but also to begin to observe and seek to understand the mental states where the decision to take risks originates. Rosa Antonia Carrillo, Keynote Speaker and Consultant Author of the book The Relational Factor in Safety Leadership

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Dr Nippin Anand specialises in the relevance of culture, belief, myth, and metaphors (language) in the areas of risk, safety and organisational learning.Nippin is the Founder and CEO of a UK-based company Novellus. He and his colleagues use a range of visual (semiotic) methods and tools to help organisations improve their decision making and cultural intelligence.

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