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There are airline pilots that are not capable of recognizing and mitigating certain system failures.’
(WSJ #48)
There are also designers, regulators, and managers who are not capable of recognizing and mitigating certain system failures.
Everyone has their limits; the difficulty - the safety challenge, is to recognise this before the limit is reached.
Additional training is not a solution for complicated systems; it may even make the recognition of certain failures more difficult.
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Countermeasures are based on the assumption that though we cannot change the human condition, we can change the conditions under which humans work.’
James Reason
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...70/pdf/768.pdf
James Reason's 12 Principles of Error Management - Aerossurance