James Reason

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This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. Meer

Human Error, published in 1991, is a major theoretical integration of several previously isolated literatures. Particularly important is the identification of cognitive processes common to a wide variety of error types. Meer

This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason‘s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. Meer