New blog post: Book Review: The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker ★★★★☆
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This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" …
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Book Review: The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker
This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings. By its nature it is a little repetitive. I suspect it's the sort of book students and…