book
Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied
Leveson, Nancy G. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Why this matters here
Leveson’s Engineering a Safer World applies systems thinking to safety engineering, arguing that accidents arise from inadequate control of interactions across sociotechnical layers, not only from isolated component failure. How Serious Systems Learn cites that stance when reliability practices risk becoming form without protective function—sophisticated procedures that no longer route attention toward consequence. The source is a systems-safety framework; the book asks what transfers beyond high-reliability domains when seriousness about harm weakens.
