Behind Human Error

Human error is so often cited as a cause of accidents. There is perception of a 'human error problem'. Solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role. The label 'human error', however, is prejudicial and hides more than it reveals about how a system malfunctions.This book takes you behind the label. It explains how human error results from social and psychological judgments by the system's stakeholders that focus only on one facet of a set of interacting contributors.

• | Author: David D. Woods
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: September 30, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 292 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0754678342
• | ISBN-13: 9780754678342