Safety accidents in risky industries : black swans, gray rhinos and other adverse events /
"This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors, called as "safety animals" are named as black swan, gray rhino, gray swans, and invisible gorilla. The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors, called as "safety animals" are named as black swan, gray rhino, gray swans, and invisible gorilla. The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system in the risky industries including aviation, nuclear, chemical, oil, and petroleum. It further uses mathematical analysis of these events (through statistics and probabilities) and presents preventive and corrective measures in dealing the same. It comprehensively covers important topics including real-time monitoring, reverse stress testing, change management, predictive maintenance, management system, contingency plans, human factors, behavioral safety, anticipatory failure determination, resilience engineering (RE), resilience management (RM), swiss cheese model and probability distribution"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 188 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000486155 100048615X 9781003230298 1003230296 9781000486124 1000486125 |