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Highlights from the literature on accident causation and system safety: Review of major ideas, recent contributions, and challenges

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It is suggested that more fundamental research and cross-talk across several academic disciplines must be supported and incentivized for tackling the multi-disciplinary issues of accident causation and system safety, and two ideas that are emerging as foundational in the literature on system safety and accident causation are discussed, namely that system safety is a “control problem” and that it requires a system theoretic approach to be dealt with.
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This article is published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety.The article was published on 2010-11-01. It has received 147 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Safety culture & Causation.

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High reliability organizations (HROs)

TL;DR: The attributes and operating dynamics of the best HROs provide a template on which to better understand how safe and reliable performance can be achieved under trying conditions, and this may be useful to researchers and caregivers who seek to improve safety and reliability in health care.
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Safety management systems: A broad overview of the literature

TL;DR: The elements of various SMSs are mapped to a generic SMS to explore the extent to which they correspond and determine and clarify the ‘facets’ of an SMS, and to distinguish all issues clear-cut for the modelling of a SMS.
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Safety in the mining industry and the unfinished legacy of mining accidents: Safety levers and defense-in-depth for addressing mining hazards

TL;DR: The proposition for the establishment of defense-in-depth as the guiding safety principle for the mining industry is concluded and possible benefits for adopting this structured hazard-centric system approach to mining safety are indicated.
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“Lean occupational” safety: An application for a Near-miss Management System design

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a near-miss management system (NMS) based on the integration of principles of Lean Management in occupational safety for a worldwide automotive supplier firm.
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Systemic failures: Challenges and opportunities in risk management in complex systems

TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles from the Ask*IEEE Document Delivery Service which IEEE does not hold copyright.
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Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the anonymous reviewers for Administrative Science Quarterly (ASCQ) have been surveyed for help with previous versions of this manuscript from the authors and the anonymous reviewer for ACSQ.
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Managing the risks of organizational accidents

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a practical guide to error management and a safety culture that reconciles the different approaches to safety management, including the human contribution and the regulator's unhappy lot.
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General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general system theory, selected and edited to show the evolution of systems theory and to present its applications to problem-solving.
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On The Quantitative Definition of Risk

Stanley Kaplan, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1981 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative definition of risk is suggested in terms of the idea of a "set of triplets" and extended to include uncertainty and completeness, and the use of Bayes' theorem is described in this connection.