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A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters
James Reason
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Description for A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters
Paperback. .
This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. The journey begins with a bizarre absent-minded action slip committed by Professor Reason in the early 1970s - putting cat food into the teapot - and continues up to the present day, conveying his unique perceptions into a variety of major accidents that have shaped his thinking about unsafe acts ... Read more
This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. The journey begins with a bizarre absent-minded action slip committed by Professor Reason in the early 1970s - putting cat food into the teapot - and continues up to the present day, conveying his unique perceptions into a variety of major accidents that have shaped his thinking about unsafe acts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
100
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472418418
SKU
V9781472418418
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-7
About James Reason
James Reason was Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester from 1977 until 2001, from where he graduated in 1962. He has written books on motion sickness, absent-mindedness, human error, aviation human factors, managing the risks of organizational accidents, managing maintenance errors, and the human contribution: unsafe acts, accidents and heroic recoveries. He has worked in a wide variety ... Read more
Reviews for A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters
'This book is an authoritative reminder of the journey to gain acceptance of human error as intrinsic to open systems operations as we enjoy it today, portrayed by the witty pen of one of its topmost trailblazers. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and found the segment on organizational accidents a particular gem.'Daniel E. Maurino, formerly Coordinator of the Flight Safety ... Read more