A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters.

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A Life in Error: From Little Slips to Big Disasters.

November 13, 2013

Reason J. Farnham Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing; 2013. ISBN: 9781472418418.

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This publication offers insights from James Reason about how human error concepts can be applied to augment system safety.

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