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The Blame Machine

Author : Robert B. Whittingham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750655100
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Blame Machine written by Robert B. Whittingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. It shows how such errors are preventable because they result from defective systems within a company. From real incidents, you will be able to identify common causes of human error and typical system deficiencies that have led to these errors. On a larger scale, you will be able to see where, in the organisational or management systems, failure occurred so that you can avoid them. The book also describes the existence of a 'blame culture' in many organisations, which focuses on individual human error whilst ignoring the system failures that caused it. The book shows how this 'blame culture' has, in the case of a number of past accidents, dominated the accident enquiry process hampering a proper investigation of the underlying causes. Suggestions are made about how progress can be made to develop a more open culture in organisations, both through better understanding of human error by managers and through increased public awareness of the issues. The book brings together documentary evidence from recent major incidents from all around the world and within the Rail, Water, Aviation, Shipping, Chemical and Nuclear industries.

The Blame Machine: Why Human Error Causes Accidents

Author : Robert Whittingham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136359575
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Blame Machine: Why Human Error Causes Accidents written by Robert Whittingham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. It shows how such errors are preventable because they result from defective systems within a company. From real incidents, you will be able to identify common causes of human error and typical system deficiencies that have led to these errors. On a larger scale, you will be able to see where, in the organisational or management systems, failure occurred so that you can avoid them. The book also describes the existence of a 'blame culture' in many organisations, which focuses on individual human error whilst ignoring the system failures that caused it. The book shows how this 'blame culture' has, in the case of a number of past accidents, dominated the accident enquiry process hampering a proper investigation of the underlying causes. Suggestions are made about how progress can be made to develop a more open culture in organisations, both through better understanding of human error by managers and through increased public awareness of the issues. The book brings together documentary evidence from recent major incidents from all around the world and within the Rail, Water, Aviation, Shipping, Chemical and Nuclear industries. Barry Whittingham has worked as a senior manager, design engineer and consultant for the chemical, nuclear, offshore oil and gas, railway and aviation sectors. He developed a career as a safety consultant specializing in the human factors aspects of accident causation. He is a member of the Human Factors in Reliability Group, and a Fellow of the Safety and Reliability Society.

Machine

Author : Susan Steinberg
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978916
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Machine written by Susan Steinberg and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of Spectacle Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless. A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written.

Goddess in the Machine

Author : Lora Beth Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984835939
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Goddess in the Machine written by Lora Beth Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for fans of Renegades and Aurora Rising. When Andra wakes up, she's drowning. Not only that, but she's in a hot, dirty cave, it's the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists--including her family and friends--are dead. They died centuries ago, and for some reason, their descendants think Andra's a deity. She knows she's nothing special, but she'll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth. Zhade, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed, has other plans. Four years ago, the sleeping Goddess's glass coffin disappeared from the palace, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he's hoping the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne--if he can get her to play her part, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn't actually have the power to save their dying planet, they'll kill her. With a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate, let alone find a way to unseat the king, especially since Zhade hasn't exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she's woken to?

The Linotype Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Linotype Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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American Lumberman

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures

Author : Andrew Pitts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662466783
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures written by Andrew Pitts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FOSSACS 2015, held in London, UK, in April 2015, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015. The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: semantics of programming languages; categorical models and logics; concurrent, probabilistic and timed systems; automata, games, verification; logical aspects of computational complexity; and type theory, proof theory and implicit computational complexity. The book also contains one full paper invited talk.

the country gentleman's magazine

Author : simpkim marshall & co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book the country gentleman's magazine written by simpkim marshall & co and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Country Gentleman's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Country Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Author : Dan Kieran
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848542178
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Planes, Trains and Automobiles written by Dan Kieran and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees? This is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanaphobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure of machines and man's need for speed. Follow Dan as he climbs aboard a penny-farthing for a jaunt around west London, drives a steam train through the 'alps', joins the pit lane crew of Mitsubishi for the Britcar 24-hour race at Silverstone, discovers the link between Lawrence of Arabia and the 'wall of death', meets tank (yes, tank) collectors and the men behind 'digger ballet', learns to fly in the shadow of Douglas Bader and, along the way, wrestles with Aristotle, Jeremy Clarkson, Plato, Hunter S. Thompson and, mostly, himself. Join Dan as he makes a journey of discovery into another world, the happy and quirky world of the Great British potterer and machine enthusiast. Could he even be tempted to stay there?

Preventing Corporate Accidents

Author : Robert Whittingham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136372180
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Corporate Accidents written by Robert Whittingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Learn what the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill 2007 means for your business * Helps managers and directors in checking whether they have appropriate accident prevention strategies in place * Illustrates potential weaknesses with numerous case studies of past accidents from a variety of industries and countries

EBook DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESS SYS DE

Author : Kehtarnavaz
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080570313
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book EBook DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESS SYS DE written by Kehtarnavaz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBook DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESS SYS DE

Industry Use Cases on Blockchain Technology Applications in IoT and the Financial Sector

Author : Mahmood, Zaigham
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799866521
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Industry Use Cases on Blockchain Technology Applications in IoT and the Financial Sector written by Mahmood, Zaigham and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blockchain technology presents numerous advantages that include increased transparency, reduced transaction costs, faster transaction settlement, automation of information, increased traceability, improved customer experience, improved digital identity, better cyber security, and user-controlled networks. These potential applications are widespread and diverse including funds transfer, smart contracts, e-voting, efficient supply chain, and more in nearly every sector of society including finance, healthcare, law, trade, real estate, and other important areas. However, there are challenges and limitations that exist such as high energy consumption, limited scalability, complexity, security, network size, lack of regulations, and other critical issues. Nevertheless, blockchain is an attractive technology and has much to offer to the modern-day industry. Industry Use Cases on Blockchain Technology Applications in IoT and the Financial Sector investigates blockchain technology’s adoption and effectiveness in multiple industries and for the internet of things (IoT)-based applications, presents use cases from industrial and financial sectors as well as from other transaction-based services, and fills a gap in this respect by extending the existing body of knowledge in the suggested field. While highlighting topics such as cybersecurity, use cases, and models for blockchain implementation, this book is ideal for business managers, financial accountants, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in blockchain technology’s role and implementation in IoT and the financial sector.

The Timberman

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Embodied Minds--technical Environments

Author : Thomas Hoff
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9788251923415
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Minds--technical Environments written by Thomas Hoff and published by Tapir Academic Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deep integration of technology into our modern society forces us to rethink the relationship humans have to their surroundings. The rise of complex socio-technical systems denotes how humans and technology have entered a symbiotic relationship where the coordinated and fluent interaction between the two is a crucial condition for modern societies to function. The disharmony in the relationship between humans and technology has immediate and serious consequences. Accidents and failed operations in transport, incomprehensible user interfaces, and failure to learn from experience are all examples from everyday life, suggesting that the understanding of human-technology relationships is not sufficient. This book investigates how humans relate to technology in our modern society, and how the basic assumption of human thought and behavior guide human efforts to improve and control technology. The fact is that the skilled use of technology in expert systems and everyday life challenges the traditional conception of humans and technology as two separate elements in the analysis of work. The book shows how this dualism is evident and problematic in a wide range of areas, such as investigation of human error in accidents, case studies of innovative interface solutions, simulator training strategies, analysis of work practices in complex systems, and traffic safety research. Embodied Minds - Technical Environments supplements the ongoing effort to understand how technology can be integrated with more confidence in modern society.

Advanced Safety Management

Author : Fred A. Manuele
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118840984
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Safety Management written by Fred A. Manuele and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides guidance to managers, safety professionals, educators and students on having operational risk management systems that meet the requirements of Z10. Emphasizes Management Leadership and Employee Involvement, the most important section in Z10, with particular reference to contributions that employees can make. A new provision was added to Z10 on Risk Assessment which along with Avoidance of Human Error is addressed. Revised and expanded coverage of Management of Change and The Procurement Process New chapters cover Macro Thinking – The Socio-Technical Model; Safety Professionals as Culture Change Agents; Prevention through Design, and A Primer on System Safety