Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety (Hardcover)

Nancy G. Leveson

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2012-01-13
  • 售價: $1,720
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,686
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 560
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262016621
  • ISBN-13: 9780262016629
  • 相關分類: 工程數學 Engineering-mathematics軟體工程
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Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety--more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world--based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causality are inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, or STAMP), then then shows how the new model can be used to create techniques for system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safety in operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques to real-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first Gulf War; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a public water supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for "reengineering" any large sociotechnical system to improve safety and manage risk.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

工程學經歷了一場技術革命,但在安全和可靠性工程中應用的基本工程技術,在簡單且類比的世界中創造出來後,多年來幾乎沒有改變。在這本開創性的書中,南希·勒維森提出了一種新的安全方法,更適合當今複雜、社會技術和軟體密集的世界,基於現代系統思維和系統理論。勒維森重新審視並更新了1950年代航空航天工程師在其系統安全概念中開創的想法,並在真實世界的例子上廣泛測試她的新模型,創造出一種比現有技術更有效、更便宜且更易於使用的安全方法。勒維森主張傳統的因果模型是不足夠的,她提出了一個新的擴展因果模型(系統理論事故模型和過程,或STAMP),然後展示了如何使用這個新模型來創建系統安全工程的技術,包括事故分析、危害分析、系統設計、運營安全和安全關鍵系統的管理。她將這些新技術應用於真實事件,包括美國在第一次海灣戰爭中友軍誤射一架黑鷹直升機的損失;Vioxx藥物召回;美國海軍的SUBSAFE計劃;以及加拿大一個城鎮公共供水系統的細菌污染。勒維森的方法即使在安全工程之外也具有相關性,提供了改善安全性和管理風險的技術,適用於“重新工程”任何大型社會技術系統。