Managing incidents in a complex system: A railway case study

Cognition, Technology and Work

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 171-185

  Collis, Lynne ^a,b   Schmid, Felix ^b   Tobias, Andrew ^b  

^a Letra Engineering Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Decompensation fatigue; Evacuation drills; Interface management; Normal accident theory; Railway incident response; Resilience engineering

Indexed keywords

RAILROADS; RESEARCH;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; EVACUATION DRILL; INCIDENT RESPONSE; INTERFACE MANAGEMENT; NORMAL ACCIDENT THEORY; RESILIENCE ENGINEERINGS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84898601460     PISSN: 14355558     EISSN: 14355566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10111-013-0255-x     Document Type: Review

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