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The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error

by Sidney Dekker

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2019
  • First published 2006

human factors safety systems

Dekker argues that human error is a symptom of problems in the system, not the cause of accidents.   He shows how to investigate incidents by understanding why actions made sense to people at the time.