Error Prevention Institute

• The technician who wired a unit backwards didn't do it on purpose.
• The firefighters who were trapped and died in a house fire thought "It's just another routine residential fire."
• The accounting intern who noticed what turned out to be a critical error on an estimate thought, "I'm just an intern, nobody will listen to me."
• The software engineer who switched tools in the middle of a project was sure he could catch any code integration errors.

So Why Do People Make Mistakes? 

Traps and weaknesses of human nature lie in wait for all of us and cause most mistakes and accidents. If you can recognize these Traps, you can avoid many mistakes and accidents.