Accidents

The source of accidents due to critical system malfunction is typically attributed to human errors.

Statistics about accidents

Human errors explain most accidents:

• in the air (60%, PlaneCrashInfo 2014 )
• sea (80%, Baker & Seah 2004 ),
• driving (90%, AlertDriving 2014 ), and
• in the industry (60-80%, Kariuki & Lowe 2014 ).

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Human factors

Updated on 17 Jan 2016.