Construction Safety Management or SafeWare

Construction Safety Management

Author: Raymond Elliot Levitt

Designing safety into every facet of your construction organization isnt just sensible, its also profitable.... Featuring proven safety management methods gathered from fifteen years or research at Stanford University and used by the most successful construction managers in the industry, Construction Safety Management is a comprehensive blueprint for CEOs, job-site managers, foremen, safety professionals, and owners on safely managing construction work at every level and phase of a project. Incorporating these management practices and policies into a practical format of real-life case studies and summary action steps, this new updated Second Edition offers each member of the construction management team specific advice on effectively upgrading an organizations total safety performance, including:
* Building a corporate culture of zero accidents
* Planning for high project performance
* Establishing accountability for safety
* Eliminating drugs and alcohol from the job site
* Maintaining a communications safety net
* Achieving the dual goal of safety and productivity
* Maintaining effective crews
* Measuring safety performance
* Monitoring contractors for safety

This new edition also reviews key requirements of the Comprehensive Safety and Health Reform Act of 1993 and discusses the potential of emerging management techniques and computing technologies for construction safety management, including Total Quality Management, partnering, robotics, automated process control, artificial intelligence, and expert systems.

"The Second Edition is even better than the first. The information is timely but whats even more important, the techniqueswork!" Raymond Hays, Director Environmental Safety and Health/QA RUST Construction Services

"The detailed guidance provided throughout the book will enable all segments and levels of the construction industry to increase productivity." Jim E. Lapping Director, Safety and Health Building and Construction Trades Department AFL-CIO

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SafeWare: System Safety and Computers

Author: Nancy Leveson

Addressing this need in her long-awaited book, Nancy Levenson examines what is currently known about building safe electromagnetic systems and looks at past accidents to see what practical lessons can be applied to new computer-controlled systems.

Software

• Demonstrates the importance of integrating software safety efforts with system safety engineering
• Describes models of accidents and human error that underlie particular approaches to safety problems
• Presents the elements of a software program, including management, hazard analysis, requirements analysis, design for safety, design of the human-machine interface, and verification

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Booknews

Leveson (computer science and engineering, U. of Washington) summarizes what is known about the safety of electromechanical systems, particularly those operated or monitored by computer. Emphasizing the importance of integrating software safety efforts with system safety engineering, she presents the elements of a program that includes management, hazard and requirements analysis, design for safety, design of the human-machine, interface, and verification. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	The Nature of Risk	1
1	Risk in Modern Society	3
2	Computers and Risk	21
3	A Hierarchical View of Accidents	39
4	Root Causes of Accidents	53
5	Human Error and Risk	91
6	The Role of Humans in Automated Systems	109
Pt. 2	Introduction to System Safety	127
7	Foundations of System Safety	129
8	Fundamentals of System Safety	145
Pt. 3	Definitions and Models	169
9	Terminology	171
10	Accident and Human Error Models	185
Pt. 4	Elements of a Safeware Program	225
11	Managing Safety	227
12	The System and Software Safety Process	249
13	Hazard Analysis	287
14	Hazard Analysis Models and Techniques	313
15	Software Hazard and Requirements Analysis	359
16	Designing for Safety	395
17	Design of the Human-Machine Interface	447
18	Verification of Safety	489
	Epilogue: The Way Forward	509
	Appendix A. Medical Devices: The Therac-25 Story	515
	Appendix B. Aerospace: Apollo 13, the DC-10, and Challenger	555
	Appendix C. The Chemical Industry: Seveso, Flixborough, Bhopal	581
	Appendix D. Nuclear Power: Windscale, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl	609
	References	649
	Credits	669
	Index	671