Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780849327186)

A ground-breaking new book, Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science deconstructs the conventional concept of human error and provides a whole new way of looking at accidents and how they might be prevented. The majority of accidents and incidents are caused, at some level, by human error. This text provides an introduction to this key field as well as a broad background to the subject. Incorporating the sociology of disaster and accidents into a practical framework, it offers a new paradigm for the subject. The authors address the roots ofhuman error in the Western tradition and discuss the history of human error studies, human factors, and ergonomics, exploring hidden assumptions that have colored past research. They include current methodologies of experimental design, new paradigms, and outlines situated and distributed cognition models, and more useful intervention strategies.

Author: Brendan Wallace,Alastair Ross
ISBN-10: 0849327180
ISBN-13: 9780849327186
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2006
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.52w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 179