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  • Engineering a Safer World

    Systems Thinking Applied to Safety

    by Nancy G. Leveson ...
    Series series Engineering Systems
    A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • An Introduction to System Safety Engineering

    by Nancy G. Leveson ...
    A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the foundations of classical safety engineering, with an emphasis on preparing for future challenges.Systems today are orders of magnitude more complex than in the past, and their complexity is increasing exponentially. Preventing accidents and losses in such systems requires a holistic perspective that can accommodate unprecedented types of technology ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Resilience Engineering

    Concepts and Precepts

    Edited by Erik Hollnagel, David D. Woods, Nancy Leveson ...
    For Resilience Engineering, 'failure' is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a breakdown or malfunction. The performance of individuals and organizations must continually adjust to current conditions and, because resources and time are finite, such adjustments are always approximate. This definitive new book explores this ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Safety Cases and Safety Reports

    Meaning, Motivation and Management

    by Richard Maguire ...
    The safety case and its associated reports are quickly becoming not only a mechanism for achieving safety goals, but also a valuable decision-support asset, and a vital industrial liability management tool. Recent developments in industry have led to safety cases being frequently required as contractual deliverables as part of large and complex commercial programmes. A safety case consists of a ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Blame Machine: Why Human Error Causes Accidents

    by Robert Whittingham ...
    The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. It shows how such errors are preventable because they result from defective systems within a company. From real incidents, you will be able to identify common causes of human error and typical system deficiencies that have led to these errors. On a larger scale, you will ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Maintenance Strategy

    by Anthony Kelly ...
    Devising optimal strategy for maintaining industrial plant can be a difficult task of daunting complexity. This book aims to provide the plant engineer with a comprehensive and systematic approach, a framework of guidelines, for tackling this problem, i.e. for deciding maintenance objectives, formulating equipment life plans and plant maintenance schedules, designing the maintenance organisation ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Occupational Risk Control

    Predicting and Preventing the Unwanted

    by Derek Viner ...
    Occupational Risk Control contains a practical theory of risk based on the principles of the physical sciences. The book provides details of the implications of such theory for real-world practice that will be of value to the legislator, general or specialist risk engineer, scientist, academic, student, risk/safety practitioners as well as managers of industrial or commercial undertakings.The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Effective Maintenance Management

    by V. Narayan ...
    Provides a risk reduction model which links maintenance to these risks.Enables readers to make the link between maintenance on one hand and safety, profitability, and asset life on the other.Examines risks faced during the life cycle of a process plant.Discusses a high cost, high downtime maintenance activity, namely plant shutdowns.Provides an in-depth look at qualitative and quantitative risks ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries

    by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety) ...
    This book provides guidance on characterizing, recognizing, and responding to warning signs to help avoid process incidents and injuries before they occur. The guidance can be used by both process safety management (PSM) professionals in evaluating their processes and PSM systems as well as for operators who are often the frontline defense against process incidents. Warning signs may consist of ... Read more

    $123.00 USD

  • Maynard's Industrial and Systems Engineering Handbook, Sixth Edition

    by Bopaya Bidanda ...
    The classic industrial engineering resource—fully updated for the latest advancesBrought fully up to date by expert Bopaya M. Bidanda, this go-to handbook contains exhaustive, application-driven coverage of Industrial Engineering (IE) principles, practices, materials, and systems. Featuring contributions from scores of international professionals in the field, Maynard’s Industrial Engineering ... Read more

    $147.49 USD

  • Process Risk and Reliability Management

    Operational Integrity Management

    by Ian Sutton ...
    In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process safety, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance. Many companies are now looking to go beyond mere compliance; they are expanding their process safety management (PSM) programs to improve performance not just in safety, but also in environmental compliance, quaility control and overall profitability. Techniques and ... Read more

    $193.49 USD

  • Safety Management Systems in Aviation

    by Alan J Stolzer, Robert L Sumwalt, John J Goglia ...
    Safety Management Systems in Aviation presents the quality management underpinnings of SMS. The four components that must be designed into proactive safety are: Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion.Including coverage on the cultures of regulatory organizations and expanded coverage on culture assessment, the book considers the nexus between cultural ... Read more

    $73.99 USD