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.