All accidents and incidents at the workplace, and the resulting
consequences, are tied to human beings and their actions. Although
their avoidance has been a crucial part of training in aviation for
the past twenty years, it has been largely ignored in many other
occupations with team structures similar to those in aviation. In
such professions and workplaces, those involved are under high
stress, with enormous workloads, simultaneously completing mental
and motor tasks, facing unexpected situations involving great risk,
and with uncertain final outcomes. The goal of researchers is to
find ways to minimize human error and to understand the interaction
amongst the members of the team fulfilling the task. Specialized
training programmes, good management and clear rules that lay out
which member is responsible for making decisions can be the first
steps to reducing and managing such errors. This book is a major
result of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation's 6th
Berlin Colloquium, 'Interaction in High Risk Environments', hosted
in 2002 by the Psycholinguistic Group of the Humbolt University
Institute for German Language and Linguistics. This group is
affiliated with the ongoing research group 'Group Interaction in
High Risk Environments (GIHRE)' sponsored by the Foundation based
in Ladenburg, Germany. The Colloquium brings together experts from
aerospace, clinical medicine, nuclear power, psychology,
linguistics and psycholinguistics, to include fields that have yet
to be a major focus of scientific investigations. Together, the
authors explore scientific advances with direct application to a
range of high risk environments. The aim is to address the issues
and root causes of error and lack of teamwork by combining the
knowledge of scientific experts with experience gained in different
fields of industry and public life. Chapters span space travel,
risk in the cockpit, safety in medicine, nuclear submarine salvage,
large construction sites, police
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