OPERATIONAL DECISION-MAKING IN HIGH-HAZARD ORGANIZATIONS by Jan Hayes ( 9781409423843 )

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OPERATIONAL DECISION-MAKING IN HIGH-HAZARD ORGANIZATIONS
DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND

By:

Jan Hayes

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Hardback

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1409423840

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9781409423843

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

13 May, 2013

Pages:

192

Description:

This book describes research on safety-related decision-making by operations supervisory personnel in three different high-hazard industries, and features a case study illustrating each: a chemical plant, a nuclear power station and an air-navigation service provider. The focus of this research is unique.

Synopsis:

This book takes a fresh look at safety decision-making by documenting and examining stories told by front-line managers in three different high-hazard industries: a chemical plant, a nuclear power station and an air-navigation service provider. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon, accident analysis has stressed the importance of excellent decision-making by those in charge out in the field. Organizations rely critically on the judgement and experience of such senior operations personnel and yet these qualities are undervalued in a business environment that emphasises documentation and measurement. Whilst operational managers are guided by rules, they also draw on their own long experience and can formulate a situation-specific 'line in the sand' to apply the experience of the operating team to complex, real-world situations that rule writers may not have foreseen. This volume refocuses our attention on the people who make these important decisions and the organizational processes that support the best choices.Jan Hayes uses her multi-disciplinary experience to draw together an account of safety decision-making that is both technically robust and yet accessible to academics, practitioners and regulators alike. Readers will see that the stories retold in this book provide a way for operational managers to share their knowledge, experience and expertise - with each other and with us.

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Includes 1 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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