Accidents and Disasters -  Satish Chandra

Accidents and Disasters (eBook)

Lessons from Air Crashes and Pandemics
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2023 | 1. Auflage
XIII, 155 Seiten
Springer Nature Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-19-9984-0 (ISBN)
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This book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters. The contents examine the conventional viewpoints on human errors, incubation of errors, complexity and organisational deviance as a cause for accidents. Work of Mary Douglas with regard to risk, Charles Perrow's work on the normal accident theory and Diane Vaughn's theory on normalisation of deviance are examined from a fresh perspective in this book. It also discusses prominent accidents in aviation, space, nuclear energy, automotive and healthcare, using the pandemic and Boeing 737 Max as a backdrop to study accidents and disasters. It further explores the background and similarities to these events and addresses the core issues such as the state of regulation, the worldview of the sociologists, and proposes that mental models of complex systems, avarice and risk for gain as other possibilities for accidents. Using the concept of nudge in behavioural economics and the Elinor Ostrom's viewpoint on regulating for common good, it suggests a way forward through the High Reliability Organisation Theory (HRO) leading to enhanced risk perception. The book will be of interest to those who would like to understand the need to incorporate risk perception into regulation, engineers and scientists, professionals and policy makers working in the areas of disaster and risk management, technology areas like aviation, nuclear plants, space and healthcare, students of the sociology of risk and of course the general reader.


Dr. Satish Chandra is a former Programme Director and Chairman, Structures and Materials Cluster at the National Aerospace Laboratories and presently, Director at Healthseq, a precision medicine and health systems company. He has spent an entire career looking at safety and risk in aviation. He established a crashworthiness laboratory dealing with aircraft and automotive safety and has experience with social and organizational behavior and its impact on risk perception. Overall, Dr. Chandra's expertise has combined research and technology with the broader aspects of regulatory compliance, technology development, operating economics and public policy. He has a Ph.D from the University of Bristol from a systems engineering laboratory that has recognized work in dealing with human errors and organisational behaviour as contributory causes to accidents. The book draws on the Boeing 737 Max accidents and the pandemic and is shaped by the author's earlier experience. Dr. Chandra has been particularly interested in sociology theories on accidents, and a view of developing a broader perspective regarding risk perception by embedding issues of human behaviour and sociology into regulation, especially in healthcare and aviation. Dr. Chandra has published work in aircraft design for safety and related areas. He has served as a reviewer and has been on editorial boards of technology journals.
This book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters. The contents examine the conventional viewpoints on human errors, incubation of errors, complexity and organisational deviance as a cause for accidents. Work of Mary Douglas with regard to risk, Charles Perrow's work on the normal accident theory and Diane Vaughan's theory on normalisation of deviance are examined from a fresh perspective in this book. It also discusses prominent accidents in aviation, space, nuclear energy, automotive and healthcare, using the pandemic and Boeing 737 Max as a backdrop to study accidents and disasters. It further explores the background and similarities to these events and addresses the core issues such as the state of regulation, the worldview of the sociologists, and proposes that mental models of complex systems, avarice and risk for gain as other possibilities for accidents. Using the concept of nudge in behavioural economics and the Elinor Ostrom's viewpoint on regulating for common good, it suggests a way forward through the High Reliability Organisation Theory (HRO) leading to enhanced risk perception. The book will be of interest to those who would like to understand the need to incorporate risk perception into regulation, engineers and scientists, professionals and policy makers working in the areas of disaster and risk management, technology areas like aviation, nuclear plants, space and healthcare, students of the sociology of risk and of course the general reader.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.5.2023
Zusatzinfo XIII, 155 p. 1 illus.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Bauwesen
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
Technik Maschinenbau
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte accidents • air crashes • Danger • Deviance • Disasters • Human Behavior and Human Error • mental models • Popular science • Risk • Sociology
ISBN-10 981-19-9984-8 / 9811999848
ISBN-13 978-981-19-9984-0 / 9789811999840
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