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Human error: models... Human error: models and management Education And Debate Human error: models and management BMJ 2000; 320 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7237.768 (Published 18 March 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:768 Article Related content Metrics Responses Peer review Get access to this article and to all of thebmj.com for 14 days Sign up today for a 14 day free trial Sign up for a free trial Access to the full version of this article epidemiology of medical error requires a subscription Please login, sign up for a 14 day trial, or subscribe below. James Reason ([emailprotected]), professor of psychology.Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PLThe human error problem can be viewed in two ways: the person approach and the system approach. Each has its model of error causation and each model gives rise to quite different philosophies of error management. Understanding these differences has important practical implications for coping with the ever present risk of mishaps in clinical practice. Summary points Two approaches to the problem of human fallibility exist: the person and the system approaches The person approach focuses on the errors of individuals, blaming them for forgetfulness, inattention, or moral weakness The system approach concentrates on the conditions under which individuals work and tries to build defences to avert errors or mitigate their effects High reliability organisations—which have less than their fair share of accidents—recognise that human variability is a force to harness in averting errors, but they work hard to focus that variability and are constantly preoccupied with the possibility of failure Person approach The longstanding and widespread tradition of the person approach focuses on the unsafe acts—errors and procedural violations—of people at the sharp end: nurses, physicians, surgeons, anaesthetists, pharmacists, and the like. It views these
Me Forgot Password? Login or Sign up for a Free Account My Topics of Interest My CME My Profile Sign Out james reason's swiss cheese model Home Topics Issues WebM&M Cases Perspectives Primers Submit Case CME person approach vs system approach / CEU Training Catalog Info Glossary About PSNet Help & FAQ Contact PSNet Email Updates j reason Editorial Team Technical Expert/Advisory Panel Terms & Conditions / Copyright PSNet Privacy Policy External Link Disclaimer Commentary Published March 2000 Human error: models and management. http://www.bmj.com/content/320/7237/768 Classic Reason J. BMJ. 2000;320:768-770. Topics Resource Type Journal Article › Commentary Approach to Improving Safety Culture of Safety Target Audience Physicians Error Types Active Errors Latent Errors Origin/Sponsor United Kingdom More Cite Copy Citation: Reason J.Human error: models and management. BMJ. 2000; 320: 768-770 Download Citation File: RIS (Zotero) EndNote https://psnet.ahrq.gov/resources/resource/1483 BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Print The author discusses concepts of human error, contrasting the person approach with a system approach in understanding the differing philosophies of error management. The person approach focuses on blaming individuals, whereas the system approach concentrates on the conditions under which individuals work. The author further explains several background concepts, including the ''Swiss cheese'' model of system accidents, the components of error management, and the principles of becoming a high-reliability organization. He explains the benefits of making the transition from a person approach to a system approach in the context of a high-reliability organization. This article is from a British Medical Journal special issue on patient safety. PubMed citation Available at Disclaimer Free full text Related Resources Meeting/Conference › Upcoming Meeting/Conference Leveraging the Principles of High Reliability to Advance Patient and Family Engagement in Safety. Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered
are used for the risk analysis and risk management of human systems. Since the 1990s they have gained widespread acceptance and use in healthcare, in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_models_of_accidents aviation safety industry, and in emergency service organizations. Many of them focus on so-called the cumulative act effects. James Reason[edit] James Reason hypothesizes that most accidents can be traced to one or more of four levels of failure: Organizational influences, unsafe supervision, preconditions for unsafe acts, and the unsafe acts themselves. In this model, an organization's defences against failure are human error modelled as a series of barriers, with individual weaknesses in individual parts of the system, and are continually varying in size and position. The system as a whole produces failures when all individual barrier weaknesses align, permitting "a trajectory of accident opportunity", so that a hazard passes through all of the holes in all of the defenses, leading to a human error models failure.[1][2] The model includes, in the causal sequence of human failures that leads to an accident or an error, both active failures and latent failures. The former concept of active failures encompasses the unsafe acts that can be directly linked to an accident, such as (in the case of aircraft accidents) pilot errors. The latter concept of latent failures is particularly useful in the process of aircraft accident investigation, since it encourages the study of contributory factors in the system that may have lain dormant for a long time (days, weeks, or months) until they finally contributed to the accident. Latent failures span the first three levels of failure in Reason's model. Preconditions for unsafe acts include fatigued air crew or improper communications practices. Unsafe supervision encompasses such things as, for example, two inexperienced pilots being paired together and sent on a flight into known adverse weather at night. Organizational influences encompass such things as reduction in expenditure on pilot training in times of financial austerity.[2][3] The same analyses and models apply in the field of healthcare, an
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