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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Dekker, Sidney; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' about?

"When faced with a 'human error' problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn't these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple Theory' where you believe your system is basically safe if it were not for those few unreliable people in it. Building on its successful predecessors, the third edition of The Field Guide to Undiferstanding 'Human Error' will help you undiferstand a new way of dealing with a perceived 'human error' problem in your organization. It will help you trace how your organization juggles inherent trade-offs between safety and other pressures and expectations, suggesting that you are not the custodian of an already safe system. It will encourage you to start looking more closely at the performance that others may still call 'human error', allowing you to discover how your people create safety through practice, at all levels of your organization, mostly successfully, undifer the pressure of resource co

Who reads The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'?

Author

Dekker, Sidney;

Publisher

CRC Press LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472439048

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Psychology, Engineering

Rating

4.3 / 5 (100 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14