Behind human error / David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook, Leila Johannesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, David D., 1952- author.

Dekker, Sidney, author.

Cook, Richard, author.

Johannesen, Leila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial safety.

Fallibility.

Human engineering.

Errors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a ""human error problem"", and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice, things have proved not to be this simple. The label ""human error"" is prejudicial and hides much more than it reveals about how a system functions or malfunctions. This book takes you behind the human error label. Di

Contents:

pt. 1. An introduction to the second story

pt. 2. Complex systems failure

pt. 3. Operating at the sharp end

pt. 4. How design can induce error

pt. 5. Reactions to failure.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786612743634

9781317175544

1317175549

9781317175537

1317175530

9781315568935

1315568934

9781282743632

1282743635

9780754696506

0754696502

OCLC:

662258366