Overview

This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to improve risk assessments, investigations, and organizational learning inside companies in order to prevent unwanted occurrences. The book helps the reader in analyzing the subject from different scientific perspectives to demonstrate how they contribute to an overall understanding. It also gives a comprehensive overview of different methods and tools for use in safety practice and helps the reader in analyzing their scope, merits, and shortcomings. The book raises a number of critical issues to be addressed in the improvement process.

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Author:   Urban Kjellen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway) ,  Eirik Albrechtsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9781498736596

ISBN 10:   1498736599
Pages:   570
Publication Date:   14 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction Chapter 1 Introducing some basic concepts Chapter 2 Framework conditions Chapter 3 Case study Section II: Theoretical foundation Chapter 4 Accident theory and models Chapter 5 Framework for accident analysis Chapter 6 The occurrence of accidents over time Chapter 7 Management of safety through experience feedback Chapter 8 Criteria for assessing the efficiency of experience feedback Chapter 9 Barriers against loss Chapter 10 The human element in accident control Section III: Learning from incidents and deviations Chapter 11 Sources of data on accident risks Chapter 12 Hazard identification, safety inspections and audits Chapter 13 Incident reporting and investigation Chapter 14 Accumulated incident experience Section IV: Monitoring of safety performance Chapter 15 Overview of safety performance indicators Chapter 16 Loss-based safety performance indicators Chapter 17 Process-based safety performance indicators Chapter 18 Causal factor–based safety performance indicators Chapter 19 Selecting safety performance indicators Section V: Risk assessment Chapter 20 The risk assessment process Chapter 21 Coarse analysis Chapter 22 Job safety analysis Chapter 23 Risk assessments of machinery Chapter 24 Comparison risk assessment Section VI: Putting the pieces together Chapter 25 The oil and gas industry Chapter 26 The hydropower industry Chapter 27 Work-related road transportation Chapter 28 Epilogue Appendix A: Definitions Appendix B: SMORT checklists and questionnaire Bibliography

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