• #317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design

  • Feb 20 2025
  • Length: 29 mins
  • Podcast

#317 Human Factors, Human Error, and Safety by Design

  • Summary

  • When we search for causes of accidents, we often assume a binary: either mechanical failure, or human error, were to blame, and we must pick between them. But labelling an accident as caused by human error doesn’t teach us anything. It makes no effort to understand what caused people to make the decisions they did....

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