[SystemSafety] NTSB report on Boeing 787 APU battery fire at Boston Logan

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2014-12-05 12:36 , Martin Lloyd wrote:
> 
> On 05/12/2014 10:52, Mike Ellims wrote:
>> Interestingly research suggests surgeons who expect things to go wrong and plan for failure have
>> much higher success rates.
> 
> Does anyone have a reference to these research results?

Atul Gawande is giving the Reith Lectures at the moment on a closely related topic, namely how to
improve the success rate of/avoid avoidable failures in medicine. A summary of the first is
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/02/-sp-why-doctors-fail-reith-lecture-atul-gawande  The BBC
page is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/6F2X8TpsxrJpnsq82hggHW/dr-atul-gawande-2014-reith-lectures

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de