The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error¶
Dekker, S. (2006). The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error.
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Mechanisms¶
- Incident Mental-Model Review
- Its strength is that it recovers a mismatch that no controlled test would have staged, and it does so under the discipline of local rationality — assuming the operator's action made sense given their model
This sourceStates the local-rationality principle: actions made sense to operators given their knowledge, goals, cues, and limited resources at the time.
- Its strength is that it recovers a mismatch that no controlled test would have staged, and it does so under the discipline of local rationality — assuming the operator's action made sense given their model
- System Mapping Interviews
- It operationalizes the "new view" of human error, which treats an operator's mistake not as a cause but as a symptom of deeper conditions in the system around them.
This sourceDekker's new view treats operator error as a symptom of deeper conditions in the surrounding system rather than as the cause. The source does not say that this mechanism operationalizes that view.
- It operationalizes the "new view" of human error, which treats an operator's mistake not as a cause but as a symptom of deeper conditions in the system around them.
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