This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on
James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and
varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very
personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights,
wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. The journey begins with a
bizarre absent-minded action slip committed by Professor Reason in
the early 1970s - putting cat food into the teapot - and continues
up to the present day, conveying his unique perceptions into a
variety of major accidents that have shaped his thinking about
unsafe acts and latent conditions. A Life in Error charts the
development of his seminal and hugely influential work from its
original focus into individual cognitive psychology through the
broadening of scope to embrace social, organizational and systemic
issues. The voyage recounted is both hugely entertaining and
educational, imparting a real sense of how James Reason's
ground-breaking theories changed the way we think about human
error, and why he is held in such esteem around the world wherever
humans interact with technological systems. This book is essential
reading for students, academics and safety professionals of all
kinds who are interested in avoiding breakdowns that can cause
serious damage to people, assets and the environment.
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