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Authors: F. M. El-Mahallawy, Bernhard Wilpert, Babette Fahlbruch
ISBN-13: 9780080440712, ISBN-10: 0080440711
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: F. M. El-Mahallawy

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Table of Contents

Foreword: The NeTWork Seminar Series: Past Successes and Future Projects
Introduction1
Pt. 1Aspiration and Reality of Interventions
Goals, claims, and difficulties of safety interventions7
Soft systems, hard lessons - strategies and tactical approaches for the integration of Human Factors into industrial organisations
Technical Annex - Outline of Applied Human Factors Context: Offshore Systems Development59
External Human Factors advisors in safety-related interventions in one Eastern-European nuclear installations69
Pt. 2Leverage Points for Implementations
Improving corporate management of risks to health, safety and environment85
The impact of organizational changes of safety in French NPP97
Organizational conflicts in safety interventions119
Change in a steel works: learning from failure and particular successes135
Multi-level training workshops - an approach to spread a safety culture concept in organizations159
Experience transfer and corrective measures175
The difficult hand-over from incident investigation to implementation: A challenge for organizational learning189
Transfer of operational experience to the project organization207
Factoring the human into safety: Translating research into practice227
Pt. 3Sustaining Change
From "knee-jerk" reaction to 10 year strategic safety plan249
Revisiting safety paradigms to meet the safety challenges of ultra complex and safety systems265
Index277

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