Risky work environments
Subtitle: reappraising human work within fallible systems
By: by Christine Owen, Pascal Béguin and Ger Wackers.
Contributors: Béguin, Pascal.; Wackers, G. L.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754676096
Subjects: Work environment; Risk assessment
Table of contents: title: Shifting the focus to human work within complex socio-technical systems / Pascal Béguin, Christine Owen and Ger Wackers; title: Learning from accidents : analysis of normal practices / Lenna Norros and Maaria Nuutinen; title: Derailed decisions : the evolution of vulnerability on a Norwegian railway line / Ragnar Rosness; title: Offshore vulnerability : the limits of design and the ubiquity of recursive process / Ger Wackers; title: Channelling erratic flows of action : life in the neonatal intensive care unit / Jessica Mesman; title: How do individual operators contribute to the reliability of collective activity? : a medical emergency centre / Jacques Marc and Janine Rogalski; title: When users and designers meet each other in the design process / Pascal Béguin; title: Near misses and mistakes in risky-work : an exploration of work practices in high-3 environments / Christine Owen; title: Toward developmental work within complex and fallible systems / Christine Owen.