Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Prologue; 1: The Need to Understand Why Things Go Wrong; 2: From Rationality to ETTOing; 3: Explaining Human Irrationality; 4: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off in Practice; 5: The Usefulness of Performance Variability; 6: ETTOs of the Past; 7: ETTOs of the Future; Epilogue; Subject Index.
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Text of Note
Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, most notably in the form of "human error". Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for "human error". This preoccupation with failure is near universal and can be found in all fields of application. One consequence of this has been a bias towards the study of performance failures, leading to a neglect of normal or "error-free" performance. The common, unspoken assumption is that failures and successes have.
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Title
ETTO principle.
International Standard Book Number
9780754676775
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Industrial accidents.
Performance-- Psychological aspects.
Performance technology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Human Resources & Personnel Management.