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  • Foundations of Safety Science A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters

    Author(s)
    Dekker, Sidney
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Dekker, Sidney
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    How 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 common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990’s? Why was the reinvention of human factors in the 1940’s such an important event in the development of safety thinking? What makes many of our current systems so complex and impervious to Tayloristic safety interventions? ‘Foundations of Safety Science’ covers the origins of major schools of safety thinking, and traces the heritage and interlinkages of the ideas that make up ...
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    How 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 common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990’s? Why was the reinvention of human factors in the 1940’s such an important event in the development of safety thinking? What makes many of our current systems so complex and impervious to Tayloristic safety interventions? ‘Foundations of Safety Science’ covers the origins of major schools of safety thinking, and traces the heritage and interlinkages of the ideas that make up safety science today.
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    Publisher URI
    https://www.routledge.com/Foundations-of-Safety-Science-A-Century-of-Understanding-Accidents-and/Dekker/p/book/9781138481787
    Subject
    Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
    Industrial accidents
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/393803
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