--- product_id: 256687131 title: "Ashgate Publishing Limited The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error" price: "919 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/256687131-ashgate-publishing-limited-the-field-guide-to-understanding-human-error store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # 4.7/5 from 249 Reviews Top 50 in Industrial Relations 3rd Edition, Updated Insights Ashgate Publishing Limited The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error **Price:** 919 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📚 Decode human error, unlock safer workplaces — don’t get left behind! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Ashgate Publishing Limited The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error - **How much does it cost?** 919 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/256687131-ashgate-publishing-limited-the-field-guide-to-understanding-human-error) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Trusted & Acclaimed:** Highly rated guide reshaping safety culture worldwide. - • **Data-Driven Insights:** Backed by real-world aviation and industrial case studies. - • **Organizational Impact:** Helps managers balance safety with operational pressures. - • **Practical Application:** Tools for better investigations and safety improvements. - • **Revolutionize Safety Thinking:** Move beyond blaming individuals to systemic solutions. ## Overview The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error (3rd Edition) by Ashgate Publishing is a critically acclaimed paperback that challenges traditional blame-focused safety approaches. Drawing on aviation and industrial examples, it offers managers and safety professionals innovative frameworks to analyze errors systemically, improve investigations, and foster a culture of proactive safety. With a 4.7-star rating and top rankings in insurance and industrial relations, this guide is essential for those aiming to lead safer, smarter organizations. ## Description When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple Theory' where you believe your system is basically safe if it were not for those few unreliable people in it. Building on its successful predecessors, the third edition of The Field Guide to Understanding ’Human Error’ will help you understand a new way of dealing with a perceived 'human error' problem in your organization. It will help you trace how your organization juggles inherent trade-offs between safety and other pressures and expectations, suggesting that you are not the custodian of an already safe system. It will encourage you to start looking more closely at the performance that others may still call 'human error', allowing you to discover how your people create safety through practice, at all levels of your organization, mostly successfully, under the pressure of resource constraints and multiple conflicting goals. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' will help you understand how to move beyond 'human error'; how to understand accidents; how to do better investigations; how to understand and improve your safety work. You will be invited to think creatively and differently about the safety issues you and your organization face. In each, you will find possibilities for a new language, for different concepts, and for new leverage points to influence your own thinking and practice, as well as that of your colleagues and organization. If you are faced with a ’human error’ problem, abandon the fallacy of a quick fix. Read this book. Review: Changed forever the way I think about safety and errors. - Excellent book with a slight tendency for repetition. The central ideas are clearly presented, and bear repetition as the resistance to these new ways of looking at human error can be considerable - actually fixing things is harder than blaming someone else. If you work at the 'pointy end' of a safety critical job or industry, ever have to fill in safety reports or analyse incidents, you should have read this book. It will help you. If you manage a safety critical industry you should adopt the philosophy of this book immediately. Mr Dekker's background is aviation safety and this comes out in his examples which tend to be aviation-heavy but not exclusively so. Nonetheless, his examples are made clearly and demonstrate strongly his arguments and the sense and practicality of his analysis. A really interesting read which will definitely help me in my efforts to stay out of trouble. Review: Gegen "Menschliches Versagen" - Hauptsächlich anhand von Beispielen der Luftfahrtindustrie zeigt Dekker anschaulich, wie wenig Sinn es macht, den Verantwortlichen zu suchen. Dies führt nur zu Informationsmangel und Rückzug, so dass sich der Fehler vermutlich wiederholen wird. Der bessere Weg ist herauszufinden, wie die Handelnden auf ihre Ideen kamen und wie man so verhindern kann, dass dem nächsten die gleichen Fehler passieren. Ein Bissche Theorie, dann viele klare Darstellungen und Konzepte, das Problem anzugehen. ## Features - CRC Press - Brand: Ashgate Publishing Limited - Language: English - Type: Paperback ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #72,813 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #28 in Insurance #45 in Industrial Relations #72 in Occupational & Organizational Psychology | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 249 Reviews | ## Images ![Ashgate Publishing Limited The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61FcsaAAnsL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Changed forever the way I think about safety and errors. *by R***N on 21 September 2015* Excellent book with a slight tendency for repetition. The central ideas are clearly presented, and bear repetition as the resistance to these new ways of looking at human error can be considerable - actually fixing things is harder than blaming someone else. If you work at the 'pointy end' of a safety critical job or industry, ever have to fill in safety reports or analyse incidents, you should have read this book. It will help you. If you manage a safety critical industry you should adopt the philosophy of this book immediately. Mr Dekker's background is aviation safety and this comes out in his examples which tend to be aviation-heavy but not exclusively so. Nonetheless, his examples are made clearly and demonstrate strongly his arguments and the sense and practicality of his analysis. A really interesting read which will definitely help me in my efforts to stay out of trouble. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gegen "Menschliches Versagen" *by D***H on 21 March 2020* Hauptsächlich anhand von Beispielen der Luftfahrtindustrie zeigt Dekker anschaulich, wie wenig Sinn es macht, den Verantwortlichen zu suchen. Dies führt nur zu Informationsmangel und Rückzug, so dass sich der Fehler vermutlich wiederholen wird. Der bessere Weg ist herauszufinden, wie die Handelnden auf ihre Ideen kamen und wie man so verhindern kann, dass dem nächsten die gleichen Fehler passieren. Ein Bissche Theorie, dann viele klare Darstellungen und Konzepte, das Problem anzugehen. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fundamental! *by R***O on 17 December 2023* Sidney Dekker é, de longe, o melhor autor sobre a nova visão de segurança e fatores humanos. E esse livro é um dos primeiros dele, onde aborda de forma bem didática uma porção de conceitos fundamentais da área. Leitura obrigatória. 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