title: The Creation of a New Minor Event Coding Scheme creator: Wallace, Dr Brendan creator: Ross, Dr Alastair creator: Davies, Dr John subject: Social Psychology description: Abstract: The present study began with an assessment of the reliability and usefulness of an existing minor event coding system in a British ‘highconsequence’ industry. It was discovered that despite the fact that the system produced replicable data, when tested in a reliability trial the causal inferences it was producing failed to meet the normal criteria for statistical reliability. It was therefore felt necessary to create a new model of the human factors component of action in this industry, from which a model of human factors error in the same industry could be inferred. A set of codes (to facilitate statistical analysis) were deduced from this last, which were then tested in a new reliability trial. The results from this trial were very encouraging, and after a six-month pilot study in which it demonstrated its usefulness as a trend and patterning tool, the system is now being phased in within publisher: Springer Verlag contributor: Hollnagel, Professor Erik contributor: Cacciabue, Professor Pietro Carlo date: 2002-04 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/4576/1/the_creation_of_a_new_minor_event.pdf identifier: Wallace, Dr Brendan and Ross, Dr Alastair and Davies, Dr John (2002) The Creation of a New Minor Event Coding Scheme. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/4576/