| Failure | behavior or situation resulting in loss in the system value | more |
| Incidence | a risky activity that turns out to result in failure | more |
| Accident | An incidence with severe results | more |
| Mishap | An incidence perceived as unexpected, although it is predictable (grey swan) | more |
| Misfortune | An incidence perceived as unpredictable / force majeure (black swan) | more |
| Fault | a risky event | more |
| Barriers | human factors that hamper the efforts to enhance the system resilience | more |
| Disturbance | a risky trigger | more |
| Error | a term attributed ad-hoc to a legitimate human activity, only when the results are undesired | more |
| Mistake | a conscious error, when the operators' goals are inappropriate for the situation | more |
| Confusion | a situation in which the human operators are not coordinated with the machine | more |
| Slip | occur when users intend to perform one action, but end up doing another (often similar) action | more |
| Miss | an error of omission, failure to take a specific action that could prevent an incidence | |
| Hazard | our subjective perception of the risks involved in an exceptional situation | more |
| Trap | A design mistake enabling transforming a disturbance into failure (according to Murphy's Laws) | |
| Resilience error | A resilience trap introduced by poor implementation of a resilience feature | more |
| Accountability bias | When incidence investigation often follows the "blame and punish" script | more |
Updated on 12 Jun 2016.