Author: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: accountability, safety, balancing, culture
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2007-12-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0754672670
ISBN-13: 9780754672678

A just culture protects people’s honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest? It is too simple to assert that there should be consequences for those who ’cross the line’. Lines don’t just exist out there, ready to be crossed or obeyed. We-people-construct those lines; and we draw them differently all the time, depending on the language we use to describe the mistake, on hindsight, history, tradition, and a host of other factors.What matters is not where the line goes-but who gets to draw it. I

Author: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: error, human, understanding, guide, field
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0754648265
ISBN-13: 9780754648260

When faced with a human error problem, you may be tempted to ask ’Why didn’t they watch out better? How could they not have noticed?’. You think you can solve your human error problem by telling people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure. These are all expressions of ’The Bad Apple Theory’, where you believe your system is basically safe if it were not for those few unreliable people in it. This old view of human error is increasingly outdated and will lead you nowhere. The new view, in contrast, understands that

Author: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: human, factors, system, transportation, safety, view, error, new, questions
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-12-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0805847456
ISBN-13: 9780805847451

Ten Questions About Human Error asks the type of questions frequently posed in incident and accident investigations, people’s own practice, managerial and organizational settings, policymaking, classrooms, Crew Resource Management Training, and error research. It is one installment in a larger transformation that has begun to identify both deep-rooted constraints and new leverage points of views of human factors and system safety. The ten questions about human error are not just questions about human error as a phenomenon, but also about human factors and system safety as disciplines, an

Author: Sidney Dekker
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: human, factors, system, transportation, safety, view, error, new, questions
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-12-28
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0805847448
ISBN-13: 9780805847444

Ten Questions About Human Error asks the type of questions frequently posed in incident and accident investigations, people’s own practice, managerial and organizational settings, policymaking, classrooms, Crew Resource Management Training, and error research. It is one installment in a larger transformation that has begun to identify both deep-rooted constraints and new leverage points of views of human factors and system safety. The ten questions about human error are not just questions about human error as a phenomenon, but also about human factors and system safety as disciplines, an

Authors:Sidney Yip, Sidney Yip, Tomas Diaz de la Rubia,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computational, science, engineering, notes, lecture, modeling, simulations, scientific
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2009-03-11
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1402097409
ISBN-13: 9781402097409

The conceptualization of a problem (modeling) and the computational solution of this problem (simulation), is the foundation of Computational Science. This coupled endeavor is unique in several respects. It allows practically any complex system to be analyzed with predictive capability by invoking the multiscale paradigm linking unit-process models at lower length (or time) scales where fundamental principles have been established to calculations at the system level. The community of multiscale materials modeling has evolved into a multidisciplinary group with a number of identified problem

Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Thomas Nelso
Keywords: history, chronicles, books, book, circle, trilogy, black
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-02-11
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0849917905
ISBN-13: 9780849917905

Fleeing assailants through alleyways in Denver late one night, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of an industrial building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head and his world goes black. Now Thomas wakes from a deep sleep, remembering the vivid dream he just had of being chased. Incredibly real. His head is even bleeding ? but he’s fallen on a rock. He’s in a green forest, waiting to meet Rachelle, the woman he’s falling madly in love with. That night, Thomas tumbles into bed and falls into a fitful sleep. He dreams. But here comes the real mind bende

Author: Ted Dekker
Publisher: Thomas Nelso
Keywords: series, circle, red
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1595547312
ISBN-13: 9781595547316

New 5th Anniversary Editions include Bonus Graphic Novels."We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness."The mind-bending pace of Black accelerates in Red, Book Two of Ted Dekker’s epic Circle Series. Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to rescue two worlds from collapse. In one world, he’s a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the other, he’s racing to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating global chaos through an unsto