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A review by mononcqc
Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety by Nancy G. Leveson
5.0
This is a great book. Leveson covers so much it verges onto the impossible to completely get through.
There is a weaving of chapters introducing great, terse overview of decades worth of theory into systems, safety, resilience, and cognitive engineering disciplines, and of chapters applying STAMP and its derived methods to various real world examples.
The author’s lens is centred on hazard analysis, processes for feedback, and control mechanisms to manage them.
In the end I’m unsure how I would go about applying her methods as-is in the comparatively small scale, low budget projects I am part of; but I also come out with a very useful unifying view that covers tons of papers I’ve read and casts them all with that lens. Some of the ideas in there I already started using in some form, even before I was done.
So despite the long text that becomes somewhat of a challenge, this book id still very much worth it.
There is a weaving of chapters introducing great, terse overview of decades worth of theory into systems, safety, resilience, and cognitive engineering disciplines, and of chapters applying STAMP and its derived methods to various real world examples.
The author’s lens is centred on hazard analysis, processes for feedback, and control mechanisms to manage them.
In the end I’m unsure how I would go about applying her methods as-is in the comparatively small scale, low budget projects I am part of; but I also come out with a very useful unifying view that covers tons of papers I’ve read and casts them all with that lens. Some of the ideas in there I already started using in some form, even before I was done.
So despite the long text that becomes somewhat of a challenge, this book id still very much worth it.