Risk management deals with prevention, decision-making, actiontaking, crisis management and recovery, taking into account theconsequences of unexpected events. The authors of this book areinterested in ecological processes, human behavior, as well as thecontrol and management of life-critical systems, which arepotentially highly automated. Three main attributes definelife-critical systems, i.e. safety, efficiency and comfort. Theytypically lead to complex and time-critical issues and can belongto domains such as transportation (trains, cars, aircraft), energy(nuclear, chemical engineering), health, telecommunications,manufacturing and services.
The topics covered relate to risk management principles, methodsand tools, and reliability assessment: human errors as well assystem failures, socio-organizational issues of crisis occurrenceand management, co-operative work including human-machinecooperation and CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work): taskand function allocation, authority sharing, interactivity,situation awareness, networking and management evolution andlessons learned from Human-Centered Design.
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