Sidney Dekker: 9 books
Just Culture
Balancing Safety and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability...
Just Culture
Restoring Trust and Accountability in Your Organization, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
A just culture is a culture of trust, learning and accountability. It is particularly important when an incident has occurred; when something has gone wrong. How do you respond to the people involved? What do you do to minimize the negative impact, and maximize learning? This third edition of Sidney...
The End of Heaven
Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without...
by Sidney Dekker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by...
Drift into Failure
From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment...
by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment...
by Sidney Dekker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This title was first published in 2002: This field guide assesses two views of human error - the old view, in which human error becomes the cause of an incident or accident, or the new view, in which human error is merely a symptom of deeper trouble within the system. The two parts of this guide concentrate...
The Safety Anarchist
Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress...
Foundations of Safety Science
A Century of Understanding Accidents and Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
How are today’s ‘hearts and minds’ programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people’s moral and mental deficits? What do Heinrich’s ‘unsafe acts’ from the 1930’s have in common with the Swiss cheese model of the early 1990’s? Why was the reinvention of...