Understanding the organizational and psychological causes of man-made disasters

Abstract

Аbstract: the paper contains twenty-one reason for the increased number of man-made disasters and describes fourteen systemic organizational and psychological causes of man-made disasters: 1) characteristics of the social system; 2) the crisis of technical education and training; 3) the practiceof introducing new technologies; 4) accumulation of causes of accidents; 5) replacement of technical experts economists and lawyers; 6) the inevitability of risk when making decisions about stopping the system; 7) conformity of decision specialists; 8) lack of analysis of system errors; 9) no responsibility for improper management decisions taken; 10) lack of diagnostic systems and reducing the selectioncriteria indicators both for professional readiness and for professional competence; 11) “human factors”; 12) lack in enterprises and training centers complete training system to the specific conditionsof activity and extreme situations, prevention of adverse conditions of operators and other prevention activities; 13) the crisis of domestic engineering psychology; 14) the lack of a sufficient number of modern developments and textbooks on engineering psychology.