A ground-breaking new book, Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science deconstructs the conventional concept of human error and provides a whole new way of looking at accidents and how they might be prevented. Based on research carried out in the rail, nuclear, and defense industries, the authors show how, by concentrating solely on human error, systems and sociological factors are frequently ignored in contemporary safety science. They also argue that the information processing view of human cognition, the foundation of the majority of safety science and ergonomics, is...