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Sidney Dekker
Researcher at Griffith University
Publications - 248
Citations - 9709
Sidney Dekker is an academic researcher from Griffith University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Human error. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 239 publications receiving 8757 citations. Previous affiliations of Sidney Dekker include Linköping University & Lund University.
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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
TL;DR: The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error as mentioned in this paper is a good starting point for a new way of dealing with a perceived "human error" problem in an organization, and it will help to trace how an organization juggles inherent trade-offs between safety and other pressures and expectations, suggesting that you are not the custodian of an already safe system.
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Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
TL;DR: This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster.
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The effects of job insecurity on psychological health and withdrawal: A longitudinal study
TL;DR: A repeated measures study of job insecurity conducted during drastic organisational change in one of Australia's large public transport organisations is described in this article, where the authors found that in a redundant group (n...
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Ten questions about human error
TL;DR: The Ten Questions about Human Error as discussed by the authors is a collection of ten types of questions about human error that are frequently posed in incident and accident investigations, people's own practice, managerial and organizational settings, policymaking, classrooms, Crew Resource Management Training, and error research.
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The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations
TL;DR: Part 1 Human error as a cause of mishaps: the bad apple theory reacting to failure what is the cause?