Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- Part I Setting the Scene -- 1 An Introduction to Human Factors -- 1.1 Introduction to Human Factors -- 1.2 Human Factors and Organisational Psychology -- 1.3 A Brief History of Human Factors -- 1.4 Human Factors and Systems Thinking -- 1.5 Accident and Incident Analysis -- 1.6 Management Error -- 1.7 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Human Factors -- 1.8 Proactive Management -- 1.9 Organisational Design and Human Factors -- 2 Human Factors in Organisations -- 2.1 Human Factors in Organisations -- 2.2 The Nature of Complex Industrial Environments -- 2.2.1 Interdependence -- 2.2.2 Rapidly Changing Demands -- 2.2.3 Uncertainty -- 2.2.4 Resource Limitations -- 2.2.5 Competing Demands -- 2.2.6 Complex Authority Structure -- 2.3 Error Within Stable and Unstable Environments -- 2.4 Human Factors in Continuous Process Operations -- 3 Risk and Uncertainty -- 3.1 Organisational Complexity -- 3.2 Characterising Human Behaviour -- 3.3 Risk and Failure -- 3.4 The Validity of Risk Estimates -- 3.5 Risk and Safety Initiatives -- 3.6 Risk Controls -- 3.7 Uncertainty and Probability -- 3.8 Probability Assessment -- 3.9 The Bowtie Method -- Part II Human Factors Frameworks -- 4 Human Error-Based Perspectives -- 4.1 The Nature of Error -- 4.2 Deconstructing Human Error -- 4.3 Preventing Human Error -- 4.4 The Difficulty in Modelling Human Performance -- 4.5 Safety Management Systems -- 5 System Safety Perspectives -- 5.1 Organisations as Systems -- 5.2 Organisational Error -- 5.3 The Sequence of Accident Causation -- 5.4 The Systemic Model of Accident Causation -- 5.5 The Origins of System Failure -- 5.6 Accimap as Representations of System Failure -- 5.7 The STAMP/STPA Approach -- 5.8 The EAST Method -- 5.9 The FRAM Approach.