"Human errors endemic in risk analysis" by Mark Andrew

Article

Human errors endemic in risk analysis

Proceedings of the HF in Organisational Design conference, Copenhagen. (2014)

Mark Andrew

Abstract

This paper focuses on RA methodologies by examining and criticising the central assumption that analysis schemes (i.e. reductionist approaches to cause-consequence relationships) must always yield valuable meaning. The argument proposes that analysis (and specifically risk analysis) may yield meaning under certain strictly controlled circumstances, but that inadequate recognition of the assumptions underlying analytic techniques inevitably leads to errors intrinsic to the process of analysis.

Keywords

risk,
errors

Disciplines

Operational Research,
Other Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering and
Risk Analysis

Publication Date

2014

Citation Information

Mark Andrew. "Human errors endemic in risk analysis" Proceedings of the HF in Organisational Design conference, Copenhagen. (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark_andrew/38/