Citation

Lawrence AC. J. Saf. Res. 1974; 6(2): 78-88.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1974, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

A theoretical model relating human error to accidents in underground mining was devised. The model focused attention, not necessarily on the victim of an accident, but on one or more participants to whom error could be attributed. Documentary evidence on 405 underground accidents that resulted in 424 fatalities was studied and classified in terms of the model. Analysis showed a total of 794 errors, the most dominant of which were failures to perceive warnings of danger (36%) and underestimations of hazzard (25%). The probability of perceptual error was greatest when the warning was a composite one rather than a single audible or visual stimulus, when the participant of the supervisory level, and when underground tramming operations were involved.