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#317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design
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When we search for causes of accidents, we often assume a binary: either mechanical failure, or human error, were to blame, and we must pick between them. But labelling an accident as caused by human error doesn’t teach us anything. It makes no effort to understand what caused people to make the decisions they did....
The post #317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design first appeared on Engineering Matters.
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When we search for causes of accidents, we often assume a binary: either mechanical failure, or human error, were to blame, and we must pick between them. But labelling an accident as caused by human error doesn’t teach us anything. It makes no effort to understand what caused people to make the decisions they did....
The post #317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design first appeared on Engineering Matters.
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