Description
Book SynopsisThis text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors. The metaphors, called as safety animals, are named as black swan, gray rhino, gray swans, and invisible gorilla.
The book analyzes incidents and accidents from the context of the safety management system in the risky industries including aviation, nuclear, chemical, oil, and petroleum. It further uses mathematical analysis of these events (through statistics and probabilities) and presents preventive and corrective measures in dealing with the same.
It comprehensively covers important topics including real-time monitoring, reverse stress testing, change management, predictive maintenance, management system, contingency plans, human factors, behavioral safety, anticipatory failure determination, resilience engineering (RE), resilience management (RM), Swiss cheese model, and probability distribution.
Aimed at professionals working in the fields of health and safety, qu
Table of Contents
1. Philosophy of Science as Introduction. 2. The Black Swan events. 3. Analysis of the “Fat-tails” in Safety. 4. What to do with BSe in the Risky Industry?. 5. The Gray Rhino events. 6. Specifics of GRe in Risky Industry. 7. The Invisible Gorilla. 8. Other “Safety Animals”. 9. How to fight “Safety Animals”?. 10. Top Management and “Safety Animals”. 11. Final Words.
