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

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 255-272

  Saward, Justin R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

error detection; error recovery; individual latent error; multi process; UK military

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924620701     PISSN: 1463922X     EISSN: 1464536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463922X.2014.969360     Document Type: Article

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