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.

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