James Reason

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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

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. 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