Managing Risk: Human Errors, Recovery Approaches, and Rule-Based Behavior

MANAGING RISK

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Risk is basically the uncontrolled loss of something valuable and thus is the
interaction with wide uncertainties. Risk is predominately the financial, ethical as well as
other that are associated with destructive management. Risk management is involves
various factors which are undertaken to eliminate the risk and causes of risks. The main
purpose of managing risk is to reduce the contingencies within various aspects and thus
improve the overall system. It has the main aim to assess the various errors which leads
to risks and thus overcoming them by following various strategies.
This essay addresses human errors and the recovery approaches, Person
approach and system approach, Evaluation of system approach and person approach,
Pros and cons of rule based behaviour and openness and transparency for managing
errors.
MAIN BODY
Human errors and the recovery approaches
Human fallibility is basically the fall down in the job. It defines the various errors
which are being caused at the workplace and thus the employees are being deceived in
context to these errors. There are a range of errors which are being caused by the
humans at the workplace and thus hinders their operation and compromise the safety of
large number of employees in the organization. The various human errors are
Fatigue
This is one of the significant human error which prevails at the workplace. When
an employee feels too tired in their work and thus is unable to complete their job
functions then the accidents arises. The exhausted and the frustrated employee will
often sleep at their workplace, neglect the basic safety instructions and thus this would
lead to damage to their mental as well as physical abilities. When the workers work on
the heavy machinery then they are not able to focus on their work due to its fatigue and
thus this may lead to the harmful accident.
Poor training
Poor training also becomes the most important human error at the workplace
which can lead to the serious injuries to the employees (Hillson and Murray-Webster,
2017). When an organization gives training to their employees regarding the use of

safety equipment or handling the complex work then the employees remain aware of its
various constraints. But due to the negligence of the management of the company,
when they fail to provide effective training to their employees then it becomes one of the
biggest error as sometimes they leave some essential topics. Due to this, employees
sometimes suffers from the serious injuries as well as accidents. For example in an
organization, the manager in the training session of health and safety left to explain the
use of Graders then it can lead to serious accident when the particular worker will be
called to work on this heavy equipment. Thus, poor training is also one of the significant
human error.
Recovery approaches
In order to overcome these errors at the workplace there are wide variety of
recovery approaches which the organizations can use
Limiting the long shifts
The main cause of the well-known human error fatigue is to work for long hours
in the office. Thus, the most significant strategy to manage this is limiting the long shifts.
The organizations can increase the number of days of working and thus can reduce the
long hours per day (Hillson, 2017). This will help the employees to get some extra time
for relaxing and thus they can have adequate sleep.
Monitoring the signs
The employers should be trained enough to monitor and track the signs of fatigue
like yawning, rubbing eyes etc. Through this monitoring, employers can thus encourage
their employees to rest. When necessary, employers can provide an isolated and
darkroom to their employees where they relax (St Pierre, Hofinger and Simon, 2016).
Experienced employers
Taking of the poor training at the workplace, this can be overcome by proving the
appropriate training to the employees. For the purpose of training, the employers should
be experienced enough who have the ind depth knowledge of the topic and knows all
pros and cons. This will help them to provide effective training regarding the specific
topic.