TY - GEN ID - cogprints4576 UR - http://cogprints.org/4576/ A1 - Wallace, Dr Brendan A1 - Ross, Dr Alastair A1 - Davies, Dr John Y1 - 2002/04// N2 - 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 PB - Springer Verlag KW - Human Error KW - cognition KW - safety KW - minor event coding scheme KW - nuclear industry TI - The Creation of a New Minor Event Coding Scheme SP - 1 AV - public EP - 8 ER -