Risky work environments reappraising human work within fallible systems / edited by Christine Owen, Pascal Béguin & Ger Wackers.

Other author Owen, Christine.
Other author Béguin, Pascal.
Other author Wackers, G. L. (Ger L.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoFarnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Descriptionxii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction : shifting the focus to human work within complex socio-technical systems / Pascal Béguin, Christine Owen and Ger Wackers -- Learning from accidents : analysis of normal practices / Lenna Norros and Maaria Nuutinen -- Derailed decisions : the evolution of vulnerability on a Norwegian railway line / Ragnar Rosness -- Offshore vulnerability : the limits of design and the ubiquity of the recursive process / Ger Wackers -- Channelling erratic flows of action : life in the neonatal intensive care unit / Jessica Mesman -- How do individual operators contribute to the reliability of collective activity? : a French medical emergency centre / Jacques Marc and Janine Rogalski -- When users and designers meet each other in the design process / Pascal Béguin -- Near-misses and mistakes in risky work : an exploration of work practices in high-3 environments / Christine Owen -- Conclusion : towards developmental work within complex and fallible systems / Christine Owen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008045375
ISBN9780754676096 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754676099 (alk. paper)

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