Root cause Quote by Nancy G. Leveson

“Hindsight bias and focusing only on the operator's role in accidents prevents us from fully learning from accidents and making significant progress in improving…

— Nancy G. Leveson

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

— Nathan Myhrvold

“To describe something as an accident is a lazy way of exempting oneself from the obligation of investigating or even preventing it in the…

— Jo Nelson 2011

“Insisting that operators always follow procedures does not guarantee safety although it does usually guarantee that there is someone to blame-either for following the…

— Nancy G. Leveson

“One of the most dangerous—and most pervasive—mistakes when creating a problem definition is letting some assumption about the key drivers sneak in before really…

— Nat Greene

“Observe the patterns of mistakes to see if they are products of weaknesses.”

— Ray Dalio

“viewing accidents as chains of events and conditions may limit understanding and learning from the loss and omit causal factors that cannot be included…

— Nancy G. Leveson

“When these accidents affect our customers, we seek to understand why it happened. The root cause is often deemed to be human error, and…

— Gene Kim

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“During the first few minutes of the accident, more than 100 alarms went off, and there was no system for suppressing the unimportant signals…

— Andrew Leatherbarrow

“An accident is only a puzzle piece that hasn’t yet found its place in the picture. A good detective collects all ‘accidents,’ no matter…

— Douglas Preston

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld