ABSTRACT
This chapter considers safety aspects of four common transport modes air, sea, rail, and road. These operate in many different ways, for example all involve commercial and private travel. Managing the safe operation of each of these modes, involving numerous complex interactions, requires many specialist functions. In documenting many of the agencies that manage safety in the main transport modes considered in this chapter, distinguished between accidental and deliberate interventions that result in incidents, injuries, and disasters. Resilience engineering considers safety and risk as non-linear. A generic approach that can take varying forms, it focuses on helping organizations to cope with complexity under pressure and to succeed. Many transport safety strategies were linear, with managers seeking to eliminate errors and introducing procedures without taking account of the collateral effects of these "overstretched measures", so that, "an incident-free system becomes mute, and its safety can no longer be tuned.
