PREFACE

A LABEL

Human error is a very elusive concept. Over the last three decades, we have been involved in discussions about error with many specialists who take widely different perspectives – operators, regulators, system developers, probability reliability assessment (PRA) specialists, experimental psychologists, accident investigators, and researchers who directly study “errors.” We are continually impressed by the extraordinary diversity of notions and interpretations that have been associated with the label “human error.” Fifteen years after the appearance of the first edition of Behind Human Error (with the subtitle Cognitive Systems, Computers and Hindsight) published by the Crew Systems Information and Analysis Center (CSERIAC), we ...

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