This volume contains a selection of original contributions from internationally reputed scholars in the field of risk management in socio-technical systems with high hazard potential. Its first major section addresses fundamental psychological and socio-technical concepts in the field of risk perception, risk management and learning systems for safety improvement. The second section deals with the variety of procedures for system safety analysis. It covers strategies of analysing automation problems and of safety culture as well as the analysis of social dynamics in field settings and of field experiments. Its third part then illustrates the utilisation of basic concepts and analytic approaches by way of case studies of designing man-machine systems and in various industrial sectors such as intensive care wards, aviation, offshore oil drilling and chemical industry. (A)
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