The complexity of today’s large organisations, businesses, and social institutions defeats management approaches based o......more

The complexity of today’s large organisations, businesses, and social institutions defeats management approaches based o......more

Our fascination with new technologies is based on the assumption that more powerful automation will overcome human limit......more

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Health care is under tremendous pressure regarding efficiency, safety, and economic viability. It has responded by adopt......more

Health care is under tremendous pressure regarding efficiency, safety, and economic viability. It has responded by adopt......more

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to ......more

Health care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and economic viability - to say n......more

This is the fifth book published within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. The first volume introduce......more

Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety......more

Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia. Practitioners fro......more

Health care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and economic viability - to say n......more

Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book wa......more

Resilience engineering has since 2004 attracted widespread interest from industry as well as academia. Practitioners fro......more

Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Re......more

Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly human error . C......more

In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same ......more

For Resilience Engineering, failure is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the re......more

For Resilience Engineering, failure is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the re......more

Accidents are preventable, but only if they are correctly described and understood. Since the mid-1980s accidents have c......more

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