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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error
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Seeking SRE: Conversations about Running Production Systems at Scale
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Behind Human Error
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Chaos Engineering
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering
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Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
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Resilience Engineering in Practice
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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Pre-Accident Investigations
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Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (A Bradford Book)
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Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq
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Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Pre-Accident Investigations
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Drift into Failure
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Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts
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Mental Models
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Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
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Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
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Memory-Enhancing Techniques for Investigative Interviewing: The Cognitive Interview
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Out of the Crisis
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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
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Foundations of Safety Science
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Safety Differently: Human Factors for a New Era
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Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
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Barriers and Accident Prevention
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Coping With Computers in the Cockpit
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Sidney Dekker (Editor)
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Safety-II in Practice: Developing the Resilience Potentials
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The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
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Safety-I and Safety-II
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Safety and Health for Engineers
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Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts
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The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions
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On Flexibility: Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield
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FRAM: The Functional Resonance Analysis Method: Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems
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Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
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Human Factors Methods and Sports Science: A Practical Guide
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Human Factors Methods for Design
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Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems
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Post-Incident Reviews: Learning From Failure for Improved Incident Response
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Quality-I Is Safety-ll: The Integration of Two Management Systems
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From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, Commemorative Edition
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
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Human Error
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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Practice
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Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis
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Joint Cognitive Systems: Foundations of Cognitive Systems Engineering
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Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
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Naturalistic Decision Making (Expertise: Research and Applications Series)
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Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale
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Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice
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The Oxford Handbook of Expertise
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Paul Ward (editor)
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Cognitive Systems Engineering: The Future for a Changing World (Expertise: Research and Applications Series)
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The Safety Anarchist: Relying on human expertise and innovation, reducing bureaucracy and compliance
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
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Mind Over Machine
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Safety Can't Be Measured: An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Risk Reduction
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On Complexity
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The Tyranny of Metrics
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If You Can’t Measure It… Maybe You Shouldn’t: Reflections on Measuring Safety, Indicators, and Goals
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Structure in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations
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Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
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Workplace Fatalities: Failure to Predict
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The 5 Principles of Human Performance: A contemporary updateof the building blocks of Human Performance for the new view of safety
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Synesis: The Unification of Productivity, Quality, Safety and Reliability
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Informed by Knowledge: Expert Performance in Complex Situations (Expertise: Research and Applications Series)
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Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 2: Preparation and Restoration
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Man-Made Disasters, Second Edition
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Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty
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The First Rule of Safety Culture: A Counter-C-Word Manifesto
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Linking Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making
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Eduardo Salas (Editor)
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Do Safety Differently
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