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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809281303321

Autore

Dekker Sidney

Titolo

Just culture : balancing safety and accountability / / by Sidney Dekker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2012

ISBN

1-315-25127-2

1-280-68988-9

9786613666826

1-4094-4062-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

174.4

Soggetti

Professional ethics

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Prologue: A Nurse's Error Became a Crime; 1 What is the Right Thing to Do?; 2 "You Have Nothing to Fear if You've Done Nothing Wrong"; 3 Between Culpable and Blameless; 4 Are All Mistakes Equal?; 6 A Just Culture in Your Organization; 7 The Criminalization of Human Error; 8 Is Criminalization Bad For Safety?; 9 Without Prosecutors, There Would Be No Crime; 10 Three Questions For Your Just Culture; 11 Why Do We Blame?; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A just culture protects people's honest mistakes from being seen as culpable. But what is an honest mistake, or rather, when is a mistake no longer honest? It is too simple to assert that there should be consequences for those who 'cross the line'. Lines don't just exist out there, ready to be crossed or obeyed. We - people - construct those lines; and we draw them differently all the time, depending on the language we use to describe the mistake, on hindsight, history, tradition, and a host of other factors. What matters is not where the line goes - but who gets to draw it. If we leave that t