Individual latent error detection and recovery in naval aircraft maintenance: introducing a proposal linking schema theory with a multi-process approach to human error research

Saward, Justin, Robert Ernest and Stanton, Neville (2014) Individual latent error detection and recovery in naval aircraft maintenance: introducing a proposal linking schema theory with a multi-process approach to human error research. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 6 (3), 255-272. (doi:10.1080/1463922X.2014.969360).

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Abstract

Error recovery has been observed amongst UK naval air engineers, which appears to be a result of some seemingly spontaneous recollection of past activity. Despite an extensive literature review, the nature and extent of this phenomenon are not understood fully and appears to be an under-researched area; causes of error and proximal error detection having been researched widely. To explore this phenomenon, a new theoretical framework is introduced based on a multi-process approach that combines theories on prospective memory, attentional monitoring and schemas. Several examples from a UK military safety database are then analysed for existence of the phenomenon and evidence of the applicability of the multi-process approach. Thus the intent of current research is not to explain why error occurred; it is to understand the nature and extent of situational error from a systems stance, for which individual latent error detection is the effect to be observed.

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