Human error reduction and safety management / Dan Petersen.
By: Petersen, Dan
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BookPublisher: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvii, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0442021836 .Subject(s): Industrial safety | Accidents -- PreventionDDC classification: 658.408 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.408 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016197 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A prominent safety consultant provides a multidisciplinary approach to workplace safety, detailing how managers, by controlling the physical and psychological situations under which workers operate, can modify employees' behavior in such a way as to reduce error, accidents, and consequently on-the-job injuries and illnesses. Petersen emphasizes the role of upper and middle management in implementing programs that can reduce system-caused human error. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Human error -- Human error - What it is -- Human error - What it does -- Human error - Causes -- Part II: System - Caused human error -- Management causes -- Culture causes -- Design causes -- Reducing system - caused error -- Part III: Overload -- Causes and outcomes of overload -- Capacity -- Load -- State -- Reducing overload-caused errors -- Part IV: Decision to Err -- Logical decision to err -- Proneness -- Perception of risk -- Reducing decisions to err -- Part V: Roles -- Human error reduction concepts -- Line management roles -- Role of staff.