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  • Safety Theater

    How the Desire for Perfection Drives Compliance Clutter, Inauthenticity, and Accidents

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    Series series The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism
    How is it possible that the desire for a perfectly safe world with perfectly safe workplaces helps generate the opposite? Safety Theater shows how our desire for perfection drives compliance clutter, inauthentic relationships with work-as-done, and new kinds of accidents. Written by the leading global voice on safety innovation today, Safety Theater takes us back to the Enlightenment and its ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Drift into Failure

    From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions ... Read more

    Was $101.68 CAD Now $90.68 CAD

  • Safety Differently

    Human Factors for a New Era, Second Edition

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    The second edition of a bestseller, Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era is a complete update of Ten Questions About Human Error: A New View of Human Factors and System Safety. Today, the unrelenting pace of technology change and growth of complexity calls for a different kind of safety thinking. Automation and new technologies have resu ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Safety Anarchist

    Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed to a crawl. Many incident- and injury rates have flatlined. Worse, excellent ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Being a Crisis Chaplain

    Delivering Help and Healing in Critical Scenarios

    by Sidney Dekker, Lance Mergard ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Mental Health
    Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real‑world experiences and research, this is a concise but comprehensive toolkit for navigating the delicate aftermath of crises.Chapters explore ways to triage emotional, cognitive, and spiritual needs, from the raw shock and grief ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

  • Foundations of Safety Science

    A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    How are today’s ‘hearts and minds’ programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people’s moral and mental deficits? What do Heinrich’s ‘unsafe acts’ from the 1930’s have in common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990’s? Why was the reinvention of human factors in the 1940’s such an important event in the development of safety thinking? What makes many of our ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: This field guide assesses two views of human error - the old view, in which human error becomes the cause of an incident or accident, or the new view, in which human error is merely a symptom of deeper trouble within the system. The two parts of this guide concentrate on each view, leading towards an appreciation of the new view, in which human error is the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Second Victim

    Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    How do people cope with having "caused" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an incident or adverse event can be as traumatic as tha ... Read more

    Was $76.94 CAD Now $68.70 CAD

  • Compliance Capitalism

    How Free Markets Have Led to Unfree, Overregulated Workers

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    Series series The Business, Management and Safety Effects of Neoliberalism
    In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever—and still, things can go spectacularly wrong.Much has been privatized and deregulated, ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Restorative Just Culture

    From Disciplinary Action to Meaningful Accountability, Fourth Edition

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    In the world of work, accountability can often translate into punishment. This book explores trust, learning, and accountability in the aftermath of incidents. Fully updated, the fourth edition of Restorative Just Culture covers restorative justice, challenging conventional notions of blame and retribution to create a “just culture” in the workplace.Whether you’re grappling with the fallout of an ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error', The

    by Sidney Dekker ...
    Narrated by Sidney Dekker ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook