Close calls
Subtitle: managing risk and resilience in airline flight safety
By: by Carl Macrae
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230220843
Subjects: Airlines; Safety measures; Aircraft accidents; Aeronautics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning; HEALTH & FITNESS / Safety; HEALTH & FITNESS / Work-Related Health; TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General
Description: "From operating theatres to trading floors, and from oil platforms to airline cockpits, organizations are engaged in a continuous struggle for safety and control. It has become essential for organizations to identify, understand and learn from close calls and 'near-miss' events quickly, before minor errors and failures can enlarge into catastrophic accidents. This book is about the practical work that transforms moments of risk into sources of resilience. It specifically examines the world of airline flight safety investigators, whose job it is to oversee one of the most technologically advanced, one of the safest, but also one of the least forgiving operational environments that exist: commercial air transport. Drawing on extensive first-hand observations and unique access to major airlines, Close Calls presents a compelling and richly detailed account of the challenges faced by these modern risk managers and the innovative strategies they adopt to analyse risk and improve safety. It is a must-read for all those who seek to understand and improve the oversight, analysis and management of risk and safety in complex organizations. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Searching for Risk and Resilience2. Airlines, Incidents and Investigators3. Understanding and Interpreting Safety4. Analysing and Assessing Risk5. Overseeing and Monitoring Safety6. Identifying and Constructing Risks7. Improving and Evaluating Safety8. Organising Resilience.