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Safety-II in Practice
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Safety-II in Practice

by Erik Hollnagel
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
144 pages
4h 39m
English
Routledge
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AppendixA FRAM primer

This Appendix provides a quick introduction, a primer, to the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM). More extended descriptions can be found on www.functionalresonance.com and of course in Hollnagel (2012).

The purpose of the FRAM is to analyse how something is done, has been done or could be done in order to produce a representation of it. This representation is effectively a model of the activity because it captures the essential features of how something is done, using a well-defined format. In the case of the FRAM, the essential features are the functions that are necessary and sufficient to describe the activity and the way in which they are coupled or mutually dependent.

All safety analysis methods refer to ...

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