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The Human Contribution

Paperback • 2008 • English

The Human Contribution

By James Reason

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About the book

This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. However there is another perspective that has been relatively little studied in its own right - the human as hero, whose adaptations and compensations bring troubled systems back from the brink of disaster time and again. What, if anything, did these...Show more

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ISBN

9780754674023

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Human Contribution

Format

Paperback

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