An Engineers View Of Human Error

Download or read book An Engineer's View of Human Error written by Trevor A. Kletz and published by IChemE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an updated and expanded new edition of Trevor Kletz's work, including more examples of accidents caused by the various types of human error. It suggests to engineers how they might approach the problem of human error, and does so by describing accidents, which at first sight seem to be the result of human error. The author sets down his views on human error as a cause of accidents and illustrates them by describing a number of accidents that have occurred, mainly in the oil and chemical industries. He uses a pragmatic approach, rather than theoretical, to suggest new ways of looking at accident prevention.