A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters, Reason 9781138430860 New..

Name: A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters, Reason 9781138430860 New..
Brand: CRC Press

CRC Press

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. He presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. > This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason\u2018s 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.\nThe 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 and latent conditions. A Life in Error charts the development of his seminal and hugely influential w.