System Safety: Challenges and Pitfalls of Intervention

Hardbound. Safety Science is now well advanced in analysing risks and safety problems. What appears to be missing is a better understanding of the methods and strategies which could help to close the gap between analysis and corrective action. Even in organizations such as nuclear plants where one thoroughly and frequently analyses safety critical events and writes comprehensive reports to regulators or super-ordinate utility safety departments, these reports get filed away in a kind of data bank that resembles genuine event report cemeteries.

Learning reaches a dead end here. The book explores the dilemma and reviews the experience of successful safety related interventions in fourteen chapters.