Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences Theory, Methods, and Tools in Safety Management, Second Edition
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Urban Kjellen, Eirik AlbrechtsenThis new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to improve risk assessments, investigations, and organizational learning inside companies in order to prevent unwanted occurrences. The book helps the reader in analyzing the subject from different scientific perspectives to demonstrate how they contribute to an overall understanding. It also gives a comprehensive overview of different methods and tools for use in safety practice and helps the reader in analyzing their scope, merits, and shortcomings. The book raises a number of critical issues to be addressed in the improvement process.
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1 Introducing some basic concepts
Chapter 2 Framework conditions
Chapter 3 Case study
Section II: Theoretical foundation
Chapter 4 Accident theory and models
Chapter 5 Framework for accident analysis
Chapter 6 The occurrence of accidents over time
Chapter 7 Management of safety through experience feedback
Chapter 8 Criteria for assessing the efficiency of experience feedback
Chapter 9 Barriers against loss
Chapter 10 The human element in accident control
Section III: Learning from incidents and deviations
Chapter 11 Sources of data on accident risks
Chapter 12 Hazard identification, safety inspections and audits
Chapter 13 Incident reporting and investigation
Chapter 14 Accumulated incident experience
Section IV: Monitoring of safety performance
Chapter 15 Overview of safety performance indicators
Chapter 16 Loss-based safety performance indicators
Chapter 17 Process-based safety performance indicators
Chapter 18 Causal factor–based safety performance indicators
Chapter 19 Selecting safety performance indicators
Section V: Risk assessment
Chapter 20 The risk assessment process
Chapter 21 Coarse analysis
Chapter 22 Job safety analysis
Chapter 23 Risk assessments of machinery
Chapter 24 Comparison risk assessment
Section VI: Putting the pieces together
Chapter 25 The oil and gas industry
Chapter 26 The hydropower industry
Chapter 27 Work-related road transportation
Chapter 28 Epilogue
Appendix A: Definitions
Appendix B: SMORT checklists and questionnaire
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