Simon Ashley Bennett

Safety in Aviation and Astronautics (eBook, PDF)

A Socio-technical Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Aviation safety and astronautics safety are taught as technical subjects informed, for the most part, by quantitative methods. This book argues that the socio-technical approach, encompassing theories grounded in sociology and psychology have much to contribute to the safety performance of these vital industries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000506846
• Artikelnr.: 62618745

Autorenporträt

Simon Ashley Bennett directs the Civil Safety and Security Unit at the University of Leicester, UK. He has published extensively on aviation safety issues and has spent over 1,500 hours on the jump-seats of a variety of aircraft, including the 737, 757, A300, A319, A320 and A321. His research interests include flight-deck human factors and socio-technical systems-thinking. He is an Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Member of the Air Safety Group of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS). He has trained pilots in crew resource management and fatigue risk management, has spent time in a 737 simulator, and has taken safety and emergency procedures (SEP) courses on a variety of types, including the 747-800.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Data, method, theory and presentation
3 Short case studies
4 Long case study
5 Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix 1: The sinking of HMS Hood
Appendix 2: A British Army near-miss in Ulster
Appendix 3: Nazi science and the principles of boost-glide