That sounds like a 'Human Factor Facilitator's' explanation. :-)
Did they happen to mention the fact that it just wasn't bloody unsinkable, as
promised?
Engineering arrogance is a human factor too.
But harder to deal with when you're explaining the wonders of teamwork?
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25/08/2011, at 5:29 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> But, as an aside, the reasons for the Titanic's accident, holing and sinking
> with so much loss of life are very interesting. I undertook a Human Factors
> Facilitators' course earlier in the year and one of the case studies was
> Titanic:
>
> Too few lifeboats
> Inconsistent use of riveting techniques and materials
> Relationships among the officers
> Ambiguity of the contracts for the radio operators
> etc . . .
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