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Module 9. Human factors

An engineer is working on a wing and kicks a spanner off into an engine cowl and breaks a sensor. This is

  • rule based errors.
  • skill based error.
  • a cognitive error.

Explanation

Kicking a spanner into the cowl is an unintended failure during a routine, automatic physical action, which falls under skill-based behaviour where slips and lapses occur. The action required no conscious rule selection or problem solving, so it is a skill-based error rather than a rule-based or cognitive one.

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