Safer Complex Industrial Environments: A Human Factors Approach

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Safety management must be proactive as well as reactive and in complex industrial systems preparedness requires a sophisticated understanding of human factors as they relate to the functional characteristics of socio-technology systems. With a particular focus on nuclear power plants in Japan, this book provides a state-of-the-art account on how to make industrial systems safer. It examines views on modern human factors, looks at documented cases, and considers methods in practice today. Featuring the commentary of leading experts, the book describes how contemporary human factors science can be used to go beyond failure analysis to actively make complex industrial environments safer.