Behind Human Error, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book first came about as a monograph in 1994 commissioned by the Crew Systems Ergonomics Information and Analysis Center of the Human Effectiveness Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory. As the original monograph became increasingly difficult to obtain, we received more and more calls from the safety and human systems communities for an updated and readily accessible version. We would like to thank Guy Loft of Ashgate for his encouragement to develop the second edition, and Lore Raes for her unrelenting efforts to help get it into shape.

The ideas in this book have developed from a complex web of interdisciplinary interactions. We are indebted to the pioneers of the New Look behind the label human error – John ...