| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Data collection -- Risk assessment -- Alternative analytic methods -- Behavioral vectors -- Countermeasures (remedies) -- Human factors design guidelines -- Testing and functional validation -- Managerial errors -- Institutional and organizational errors -- Management challenges -- Professional responsibility (ethics) -- Discussion questions |
| Summary |
Applying and extending principles that can help prevent consumer error, worker fault, managerial mistakes, and organizational blunders, the book provides useful information on theories, methods, and specific techniques for controlling human error. It forms a how-to manual of good practice, focusing on identifying human error, its causes, and how to control or prevent it. It presents constructs that assist in optimizing human performance and to achieve higher safety goals.--ERGONOMICSnetBASE description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Humans
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Cognition
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Decision Making
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Ergonomics
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Ethics, Professional
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Research Design
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Risk Assessment
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Accidents -- Prevention
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Cognitive psychology
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Decision making
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Errors -- Prevention
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Human engineering
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Professional ethics
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Risk assessment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peters, Barbara J., 1950-
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| ISBN |
1420008110 |
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9781420008111 |
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