Organizational Accidents Revisited

Updating and extending the discussion in his first book, Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents, the author uses case studies that have occurred since its publication to understand the causes of organizational accidents, focusing on organizational issues, design, procedures, and communications. He reviews the arguments underlying organizational accidents and the unsafe acts that contribute to them, then discusses the factors underlying latent conditions and 10 case studies of accidents related to healthcare, the release of radiation, a railway accident, hydrocarbon explosions, and aviation accidents, and the factors involved, foresight training, alternative theories, patient safety, whether optimism is appropriate in these situations, and examples of heroic recoveries: the Miracle on the Hudson and the Fukushima Daini plant. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)