I'm looking for a book
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
Have you condsidered looking up the course or the college to see if the book is still on a booklist? In the UK at least courses change slower than plate tectonics so there'd be a good chance they were still using it, or a later edition of the same.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
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I took a course in Human Factors back in college (~12 years ago) and the book for the course was very entertaining and a great read. The problem is, shortly after I graduated,my dog ate the book (long story). In my current position I'm finding that I'm using a lot of the lessons from the course and want to re-read that book. The problem is I can't remember the actual title. I believe it was something like "Human Factors in Design" but that might have been the course name. Searching for that on Amazon turns up over 3000 hits. I'm hoping that someone here might have read the book at some point and can tell me the title. The book was published prior to 2001 and each chapter in the book started off detailing some major disaster (Chernobyl, chemical spill in India, major black out etc) each of which was caused by some flaw in the design of a system that resulted in people not taking appropriate action before it was too late. I know that's pretty vague but I think it was a memorable enough book that, if you have it, you'll probably know what I"m talking about. Also I'm open to other suggestions on books in a similar vein if you have some to recommend.
I have a copy of Safeware - System Safety and Computers by Nancy G Leveson, Addison-Wesley 1995, (ISBN 0-201-11972-2) which covers the kind of stuff you're talking about, although it isn't your book by the sound of it. There are case studies, including Bhopal and Chernobyl. My favourite line is where she quotes a USAF manual describing accidents with Atlas missile silos. "... The first operation with a fueled missile was nearly successful. The drive mechanism held it for all but the last five feet when gravity took over and the missile dropped back. Very suddenly, the 40-foot diameter silo was altered to about 100-foot diameter." Cheers, Peter
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