From Safety to Safety Science: The Evolution of Thinking and Practice Swuste Paul
From Safety to Safety Science: The Evolution of Thinking and Practice Swuste Paul How do accidents and disasters occur? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the past century, with…
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From Safety to Safety Science: The Evolution of Thinking and Practice Swuste Paul
How do accidents and disasters occur? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the past century, with the number of accidents falling spectacularly within industry, aviation and road traffic. How has knowledge of accident processes evolved?
The improvements are partly due to a better understanding of the accident processes that ultimately lead to damage. This progress has been gradual in the context of a changing society. This book shows how contemporary crises instigated the development of safety knowledge and how the safety sciences pieced their theories together by research, by experience and by taking ideas from other domains.From Safety to Safety Science details 150 years of knowledge development in the safety sciences.
The authors have rigorously extracted the essence of safety knowledge development from more than 2,500 articles to provide a