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Symposium |
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[Laboratory Safety Education] Study on the Psychological Processes Underlying Errors and Laboratory Management Systems for the Improvement of Chemical Laboratories |
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Room 214 |
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THU 13:30-: |
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KCS5-1 |
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Psychological Processes Underlying Human Errors |
| Authors |
ChangHo Park
Department of Psychology, Chonbuk National University, Korea |
| Abstract |
Most of everyday human errors are caused by failures in such psychological processes as attention, memory, and judgment. These psychological processes are involved in various actions in labs, workplace and control rooms, and some failures of which could lead to serious accidents when they are not blocked in the way. Considering psychological mechanisms and their end results different types of human errors can be distinguished, asking different defenses. Reason`s (1984) Swiss cheese model can provide a good metaphor in understanding and defending different levels of human errors. Psychological processes at an individual level could be integrated in a causal network of errors in the context of complex systems, as proposed by Senders and Moray (1991). A number of defenses against human errors are discussed. |
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120th General Meeting of the KCS