Patterns In Safety Thinking

A Literature Guide to Air Transportation Safety

Geoffrey R. McIntyre

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Routledge
06 June 2000

Aerospace & air transport industries; Occupational & industrial health & safety; Public health & preventive medicine

"The interdisciplinary nature of ""safety"" means that it has implications for most corporate management and government regulatory actions. This text is aimed at aviation safety management trainees, and aims to offer a practical and concise education supplement to the safety literature. Its central thesis is that safety is more than the absence of accidents. Safety is defined as the goal of transforming the levels of risk that are inherent in all human activity. In order to describe the forward-looking system safety approach, with its focus on accident prevention, the author classifies the transportation safety literature into distinct and apparently self-reinforcing ""schools"" of thought - tort law, reality engineering and system safety engineering. The book provides real-world practical illustrations of the theory, outlines the history, theory and practice of safety management and aims to stimulate interdisciplinary thinking about safety."

By: Geoffrey R. McIntyre
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 161mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780754613220
ISBN 10: 0754613224
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 06 June 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Introduction; Transportation Tort law school; Reliability engineering school; System safety engineering school; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Geoffrey R. McIntyre is currently with the Federal Aviation Administration* (FAA) in the Office of the Assistant Administrator for System Safety, System Safety Engineering and Analysis Division. Prior to that he worked in research and development with various agencies of the US Department of Transportation, as a part-time lecturer in Public Administration at the George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and as a guest lecturer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has a PhD in Public Administration/Transportation from New York University. *The views expressed in this book are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the FAA***

Reviews for Patterns In Safety Thinking: A Literature Guide to Air Transportation Safety

’Aerospace engineers, air safety managers and anyone trying to grasp the fundamentals and scope of modern air safety are likely to find Patterns in Safety Thinking a very useful introduction and guide to the subject...an excellent road map of this extremely complex subject.’ Aviation Now ’Readers will be delighted by a complete overview of system safety development ...McIntyre’s application of system safety thinking to the air transportation world is most effective in the comprehensive scenarios he presents.’ Journal of System Safety ’...a comprehensive but compact guide to safety philosophies which may provoke thought among a wider audience than just the aviaiton industry.’ Industrial Safety Management, October 2003 'The text is copiously referenced throughout, entertaining and shocking by turns, to get its seriously urgent message across.' Occupational Safety and Health Journal (ROSPA) Feb 04