Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815392680 ISBN 13: 9780815392682

Publisher: CRC Press, 2019

Synopsis

Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions provides a unique perspective into the latest developments of safety science by putting together, for the first time, a new generation of authors with some of the pioneers of the field. Forty years ago, research traditions were developed, including, among others, high-reliability organisations, cognitive system engineering or safety regulations. In a fast-changing world, the new generation introduces, in this book, new disciplinary insights, addresses contemporary empirical issues, develops new concepts and models while remaining critical of safety research practical ambitions. Their ideas are then reflected and discussed by some of the pioneers of safety science.

Features

• Allows the reader to discover how contemporary safety issues are currently framed by a new generation of researchers, brought together for the first time
• Includes an introduction and guide to the development of safety science over the last four decades
• Features an extraordinary collection of expert contributors, including pioneers of safety research, reflecting the evolution of the discipline and offering insightful commentary on the current and future state of the field
• Serves as an invaluable reference and guide for safety professionals and students from any established disciplines such as sociology, engineering, psychology, political science or management as well as dedicated safety programmes
• Some figures in the eBook are in colour

About this title

About the Author

Jean-Christophe Le Coze is a safety researcher (PhD, Mines ParisTech) at INERIS, the French national institute for environmental safety. His activities combine ethnographic studies and action research in various safety-critical systems, with an empirical, theoretical, historical and epistemological orientation.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815392680
• ISBN 13: 9780815392682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Le Coze Jean-Christophe