Место издания:IAAP & IUPsyS San Francisco, USA San-Francisco
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Аннотация:Human error prevention is one of the key point in the framework of work safety and health investigations. Psychological means and programs of work error prevention were elaborated both in West-European countries and Russia. The comparison of West-European and Russian approaches is carried out. The most important points in what is in common and what is different are analyzed. The main differences grow from 1) different research traditions that relay on different theoretical background, and 2) different political and economical situation in West Europe and Russia.
The general trend in understanding of West-European tradition of prevention and prevention actions implementation are as follows: from dominating concentration on working units to investigation of the functioning of such units in the structure of an organization. The essence of modern approaches is to develop specific programs intended to organize and maintain the effective and safe work of the whole organization. Two different strategies in dealing with errors are discussed: error prevention and error management.
In Russian psychology traditionally the methods of error prevention were implemented mostly on the individual level and on the level of man-machine interaction. Error prevention and health protection programs are developed for two levels: 1) man-technical devices - elimination of all discrepancies on psychophisiological level; 2) individual resources - investigations of activity and human functional states’ regulation processes during work execution. Here the error prevention and health protection programs are based on understanding of mechanisms of human states’ changings and their influence on work performance.