Was it technical failure or human error?

In this video we introduce the roots of the dualistic question whether an accident was caused by either technical failure or human error. We trace it to H.W. Heinrich and his book on Industrial Accident Prevention from 1931 and see how its reasoning has shaped safety research, policy and discourse ever since. In this video we also play around a bit more with animations than we have in our previous videos. Please give us a comment below on how you like it.

[benkehargitai]

I didn't expect the topic of Non-Duality to pop up here... :-)
Great video!

[antifragility]

Great video... clear academic explanation and use of humor appreciated. Please consider creating a video explaining "Systems Thinking"... To go ‘up and out’ instead of going ‘down and in’; Understanding the system-as-found (structure, boundaries, interactions) and work-as-done (adaptations, adjustments) before trying to understand any specific event, occurrence, or risk.

[georgeanaman]

Powerful presentation by all standard. Thanks for uploading this video on "Human Factors and Systems Safety".

[BedCrunch]

If it was human error, it is the systems fault, as the system was not designed to prevent that type of human error.