title: Is human error the cause of accident and disaster?
abstract: Should human error be blamed for accidents or can they be attributed to poor design? Sharon Horan weighs up the arguments and examines how an ergonomic approach in the planning stage might reduce accidents.
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horan
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015984:Causality; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis