Individual fallibility: structural limits
Errors and mistakes: causes, consequences and management in occupational health and safety
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Individual fallibility: structural limits
Errors and mistakes: causes, consequences and management in occupational health and safety

Author : Eduardo BLANCO MUNOZ

Publication date: July 10, 2021, Review date: January 6, 2023 | Lire en français

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2. Individual fallibility: structural limits

To understand our fallibility, we need to start by understanding how our senses and our brain work. Considered the most complex organization of matter in the Universe, the human brain is a fascinating organ that we know only incompletely. It is made up of some 100 billion neurons, forming a dynamic network of trillions of connections.

Interconnected neuronal structures support functions such as perception, attention, concentration and memory, all of which integrate with each other, and whose limits, if not identified and taken into account, can cause error.

2.1 Perception

Our information processing begins with the acquisition of stimuli by our senses, which are then managed subconsciously by our perceptual memory. Among these stimuli,...

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