Managing Maintenance Error
eBook - PDF

Managing Maintenance Error

A Practical Guide

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Managing Maintenance Error

A Practical Guide

About this book

Situations and systems are easier to change than the human condition - particularly when people are well-trained and well-motivated, as they usually are in maintenance organisations. This is a down-to-earth practitioner's guide to managing maintenance error, written in Dr. Reason's highly readable style. It deals with human risks generally and the special human performance problems arising in maintenance, as well as providing an engineer's guide for their understanding and the solution. After reviewing the types of error and violation and the conditions that provoke them, the author sets out the broader picture, illustrated by examples of three system failures. Central to the book is a comprehensive review of error management, followed by chapters on: - managing person, the task and the team; - the workplace and the organization; - creating a safe culture; It is then rounded off and brought together, in such a way as to be readily applicable for those who can make it work, to achieve a greater and more consistent level of safety in maintenance activities. The readership will include maintenance engineering staff and safety officers and all those in responsible roles in critical and systems-reliant environments, including transportation, nuclear and conventional power, extractive and other chemical processing and manufacturing industries and medicine.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. 1: Human Performance Problems in Maintenance
  11. 2: The Human Risks
  12. 3: The Fundamentals of Human Performance
  13. 4: The Varieties of Error
  14. 5: Local Error-provoking Factors
  15. 6: Three System Failures and a Model of Organizational Accidents
  16. 7: Principles of Error Management
  17. 8: Person and Team Measures
  18. 9: Workplace and Task Measures
  19. 10: Organizational Measures
  20. 11: Safety Culture
  21. 12: Making it Happen: The Management of Error Management
  22. Index