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Serious Accidents and Human Factors

Masako Miyagi
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781860584732
  • Weight: 680g
  • Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Mar 2005
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
There is growing concern globally over issues of aviation safety.  Awareness of previous failures and their causes is one of the most important factors in determining risks and hazards in any new operational systems. This requires experience of accidents and failures across a broad spectrum of complex systems.

Every accident occurs as a result of a chain of errors, and if one of the ‘links’ making up that chain can be broken, the accident might be prevented - and becomes merely an ‘incident’. If you collect detailed data from a range of ‘incidents’, relating to how they occurred, and develop a consistent method for analysing that data, you can create a potentially valuable resource to assist in accident prevention.

This interesting publication proposes an original and structured approach to accident prevention. In an interesting and readable collection of accounts of major accidents, drawn mainly from the aviation industry, the author investigates incident reports analytically and reveals the critical information hidden therein that could avert a full-blown accident or disaster. She applies an innovative analytical technique - multi-dimensional analysis of incident reports (MAIR), using a particular model (Quantification Method III) to validate the results and focus upon individual components identified within the causal chain of events that precede an accident. She advocates wider acceptance and use of IRAS (Incident Report Analysing System), ideally administered by a neutral and independent body, to help prevent accidents not only in aviation but in relation to all complex systems, such as nuclear power plants.

This comprehensive text offers aviation industry personnel, as well as those involved more generally with safety, risk assessment, and accident prevention in other industries, an inclusive understanding of the accident causation chain, events contributing to that chain, and a method for identifying and eliminating causal factors in a pro-active way.

Features:

  • Provides a comprehensive explanation of the accident causation chain, events contributing to that chain, and methods for identifying & eliminating causal factors in a pro-active way
  • Proposes an original and structured approach to accident prevention
  • Presents case studies from a wide range of internationally infamous aviation accidents
  • Discusses and advocates the wider acceptance and use of IRAS (Incident Report Analysing System)
About Masako Miyagi
Masako Miyagi is Executive Director of the Japan Research Institute of Air Law. An earlier edition of her book is previously published in the Japanese language under the title Seeking Out the Signs of Major Accidents. She has presented her work at numerous academic meetings for the benefit of mechanical engineers and scientists, reliability engineering associations, aeronautical societies, health and safety organizations, and the chemical, process, and power industries.

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