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Coping with Computers in the Cockpit Sidney Dekker 9781138608573
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89First published in 1999, this volume examined how increasing cockpit automation in commercial fleets across the world has had a profound impact on the cognitive work that is carried out on the flight... -
Coping with Computers in the Cockpit by Sidney Dekker 9781138608511
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40First published in 1999, this volume examined how increasing cockpit automation in commercial fleets across the world has had a profound impact on the cognitive work that is carried out on the flight... -
Restorative Just Culture in Practice: Implementation and Evaluation by Sidney Dekker
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38A restorative just culture has become a core aspiration for many organizations in healthcare and elsewhere. Whereas 'just culture' is the topic of some residual conceptual debate (e.g. retributive... -
Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach Sidney Dekker 9781439852255
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of... -
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Professor Sidney Dekker
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04When faced with a 'human error' problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn't these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your... -
The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age Sidney Dekker 9780415789875
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually... -
Foundations of Safety Science: A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters by Sidney Dekker
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.34How are today's 'hearts and minds' programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people's moral and mental deficits? What do Heinrich's 'unsafe acts' from the 1930's have in... -
Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience Sidney Dekker 9781466583412
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44How do people cope with having "caused" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause... -
The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations by Professor Sidney Dekker 9781138704299
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.11This title was first published in 2002: This field guide assesses two views of human error - the old view, in which human error becomes the cause of an incident or accident, or the new view, in which... -
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Professor Sidney Dekker 9781472439048
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £118.97When faced with a 'human error' problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn't these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your... -
Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era, Second Edition by Professor Sidney Dekker
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the... -
Being a Crisis Chaplain: Delivering Help and Healing in Critical Scenarios Sidney Dekker 9781032950938
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.89Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real-world experiences and... -
The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance by Professor Sidney Dekker
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.70Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and... -
Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems by Professor Sidney Dekker
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle... -
The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance Sidney Dekker 9781138300460
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and... -
Safety Theater: How the Desire for Perfection Drives Compliance Clutter, Inauthenticity, and Accidents Sidney Dekker 9781032012476
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.95How is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite? Safety Theater shows how our desire for perfection drives compliance clutter,... -
Compliance Capitalism: How Free Markets Have Led to Unfree, Overregulated Workers Sidney Dekker 9781032012353
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a... -
Restorative Just Culture: From Disciplinary Action to Meaningful Accountability, Fourth Edition Sidney Dekker 9781032868233
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In the world of work, accountability can often translate to punishment. This book explores trust, learning, and accountability in the aftermath of incidents. Fully updated, the fourth edition of... -
The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age Sidney Dekker (Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Australia) 9780415789899
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually... -
Practical Guide to Safety Leadership: An Evidence-Based Approach Luke Daniel 9781138209305
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Leaders can shape an organisation through their behaviours and their vision. If an organisation lacks a clear vision or there is disengagement by the leadership team, then the results can be... -
Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts by David D. Woods
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £44.84For 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... -
Resilience Engineering in Practice: A Guidebook Jean Paries 9781472420749
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £54.44Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia. Practitioners from various fields, such as aviation and air traffic management, patient safety,... -
Decision Making in Complex Environments by Jan Noyes 9781138076921
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £59.54Many complex systems in civil and military operations are highly automated with the intention of supporting human performance in difficult cognitive tasks. The complex systems can involve teams or... -
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 2: Preparation and Restoration Erik Hollnagel 9780367385408
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £62.36Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of the... -
Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning by Todd Conklin
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Pre-Accident Investigations: Better Questions - An Applied Approach to Operational Learning challenges safety and reliability professionals to get better answers by asking better questions. A... -
Simplicity in Safety Investigations: Moving Towards Learning from Incidents, Second Edition Ian Long 9781032869896
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This book investigates over 30 major catastrophes and reveals the critical necessity of transitioning from identifying lessons to implementing actionable changes in workplace safety.Recognizing the... -
Simplicity in Safety Investigations: Moving Towards Learning from Incidents, Second Edition Ian Long 9781032870656
RRP: £86.99Booksplease Price: £76.23This book investigates over 30 major catastrophes and reveals the critical necessity of transitioning from identifying lessons to implementing actionable changes in workplace safety.Recognizing the... -
Television Drama: Agency, Audience and Myth John Tulloch 9780415016490
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80First published in 1990. This book is the first specifically about television drama from within a cultural studies perspective and as such examines the active agency of both viewers and media... -
Behind Human Error by David D. Woods 9780754678342
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.64Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or... -
Safety Can't Be Measured: An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Risk Reduction Andrew S. Townsend 9781032928029
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44The British Prime Minister has avowed to 'kill off the health and safety culture' which he described as 'a monster'. Nonetheless, industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative... -
From Safety to Safely: Principles and Practice of Systemic Management Erik Hollnagel 9781032664705
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the... -
Visualising Health Care Practice Improvement: Innovation from Within Rick Iedema 9781846194504
Booksplease Price: £55.81Why is it that in spite of all the health policy reforms, clinical practice innovations, increasing intersectoral interdependencies and new medical and information technologies, so little has changed... -
Aviation and Human Factors: How to Incorporate Human Factors into the Field by Jose Sanchez-Alarcos 9781032571058
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Air safety is right now at a point where the chances of being killed in an aviation accident are far lower than the chances to winning a jackpot in any of the major lotteries. However, keeping or... -
Barriers and Accident Prevention Erik Hollnagel 9780754643012
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.33Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have come to be seen as the consequence of complex interactions rather than simple... -
Barriers and Accident Prevention Erik Hollnagel 9781138247352
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have come to be seen as the consequence of complex interactions rather than simple... -
Risky Work Environments: Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems by Pascal Beguin 9781138077614
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies... -
The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership: Achieving Success through Employee Engagement Rosa Antonia Carrillo 9781032177731
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23At the core of The Relationship Factor in Safety Leadership are eight beliefs about human nature that are common to leaders who successfully communicate that safety is important while meeting... -
Flying in the Face of Criminalization: The Safety Implications of Prosecuting Aviation Professionals for Accidents Sofia Michaelides-Mateou 9781138278707
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £50.74Two parallel investigations take place after every aviation accident: one technical, one judicial. The former must be conducted with the sole intention of making safety recommendations to prevent the... -
Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation Lawrence Marks 9781482233643
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Because radiation is a central curative and palliative therapy for many patients, it is essential to have safe and efficient systems for planning and delivering radiation therapy. Factors such as...