creators_name: Wallace, Brendan
creators_name: Ross, Alastair
creators_name: Davies, John
editors_name: Hollnagel, Erik
editors_name: Cacciabue, Pietro Carlo
type: journalp
datestamp: 2005-10-20
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:12
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Creation of a New Minor Event Coding Scheme
ispublished: pub
subjects: soc-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: Human Error, cognition, safety, minor event coding scheme, nuclear industry
abstract: 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
date: 2002-04
date_type: published
publication: Cognition Technology and Work
volume: 4
number: 1
publisher: Springer Verlag
pagerange: 1-8
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Wallace, Dr Brendan and Ross, Dr Alastair and Davies, Dr John  (2002) The Creation of a New Minor Event Coding Scheme.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4576/1/the_creation_of_a_new_minor_event.pdf