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Emergence, Complexity, Chaos & Technological Risk

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Just a collector page for stuff that I find useful or interesting.

Definitions of hazard. A collection of definitions of hazard, it’s interesting how such a central concept of safety engineering is so elusive.

Safety resources. A compendium of sources of safety engineering information on the interweb.

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  • A(H1N1) Epidemic Statistics


  • I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.

  • what are the facts?

    Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?

    You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

    Robert Heinlein (1978)

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    • Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources, only success can tell one from another." Ernst Mach, 1905 Tweeted: 1 week ago
    • "Things that have never happened before happen all the time." Scott D. Sagan - The Limits of Safety Tweeted: 1 week ago
    • "The enemy of safety is complexity." Behind Human Error, Woods et al, Ashgate 2010 p 23 Tweeted: 1 week ago
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    • Engineering a Safer World
    • Writing Specs for Fun and Profit
    • Decision Making Theory and the Risk Matrix
    • Unintended Interactions and Interface Hazard Analysis
    • Description Errors and Irreversible Commands
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    • Airbus cockpit
    • How to Make Bounded Decisions on Risk (Part IV)
    • Rotor Bursts and Single Points of Failure (Part II)
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  • Useful Sites

    • Computer Related Incidents with Commercial Aircraft
    • John Kadavny
    • John Norman's JND Website
    • Nancy Leveson's Homepage
    • Safety Critical FCS
    • System Safety Society
    • The Less Wrong Wiki
    • The Risk Digest
    • The System Safety Sceptic
  • Categories

    • Cognitive psychology (41)
      • Affordances (1)
      • Decision making (15)
      • Heuristics & Biases (14)
      • Human error (14)
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      • Safety culture (1)
    • Completely Off Topic (6)
    • Complexity (54)
      • Common cause failures (7)
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      • Emergent attributes (1)
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      • The human machine interface (16)
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    • organisational safety cultures (4)
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