The Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry

2011

 

Volume 11, Number 4, pp. 193–200

 

 

 

Administration of a safety system: further lessons from Mt Erebus?

Christine Standing

In any modern, high technology system, assuring its safety (i.e., an acceptably low risk of injury or death of users) itself constitutes a system, albeit with many elements less palpable than the technology itself. Developing such safety systems was first found to be necessary with the railways, and the necessity is even greater for aviation. Such a system must necessarily be administered, allowing human weakness to adversely influence its efficacity.

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