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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety

    A Systems Perspective on Managing Tensions and Building Complementarity

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an organization and designed to anticipate possible hazards in system operation, is really incompatible with the idea that the professional expertise of front-line workers is what ... Read more

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  • Safety in the Digital Age

    Sociotechnical Perspectives on Algorithms and Machine Learning

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Stian Antonsen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book gathers authors from a wide range of social-scientific and engineering disciplines to review challenges from their respective fields that arise from the processes of social and technological transformation taking place worldwide. The result is a much-needed collection of knowledge about the integration of social, organizational and technical challenges that need to be tackled ... Read more

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  • The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors

    New Actors and New Viewpoints in a Conservative Landscape

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected with safety. It analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors such as nuclear power, chemical processing, and transport with those in the finance and ... Read more

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  • Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks

    Case Studies, Collaborative Practices and Governance Principles

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and the ... Read more

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  • Visualising Safety, an Exploration

    Drawings, Pictures, Images, Videos and Movies

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Teemu Reiman ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters.Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impacting ... Read more

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  • The Coupling of Safety and Security

    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Corinne Bieder, Kenneth Pettersen Gould ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively.The book ... Read more

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  • Navigating Safety

    Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs - Theory and Practice

    by René Amalberti ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of how to best find these compromises, starting with lessons learnt from natural risk management by ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Organisational Behaviour

    by Andrzej Huczynski, David Buchanan ...
    If you are a new student in social science, looking for an engaging textbook in Organizational Behaviour that is not confined to traditional academic resources, then this is the right book for you.**Organizational Behaviour,**10th edition by Buchanan and Huczynski, is one of the most established books in the field, ideal for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional students who do not ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Everyday Automation

    Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies

    Edited by Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Deborah Lupton, Minna Ruckenstein ...
    This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automated ... Read more

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  • Safety-I and Safety-II

    The Past and Future of Safety Management

    by Erik Hollnagel ...
    Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I). From a Safety-I perspective, the purpose of safety management is to make sure that the number of accidents and incidents is kept as low as possible, or as low as is reasonably practicable. This means that safety management must start from the manifestations of the absence of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Strategic Reframing

    The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach

    by Angela Wilkinson, Rafael Ramirez ...
    Traditional strategy assumes stability and predictability. Today's world is better characterised by turbulence, uncertainty, novelty and ambiguity - conditions that contribute disruptive changes and trigger the search for new ways of coping. This book aims to become the premier guide on how to do scenario planning to support strategy and public policy. Co-authored by three experts in the field, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Human-Centered AI

    by Ben Shneiderman ...
    The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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