@misc{cogprints4576, volume = {4}, number = {1}, month = {April}, author = {Dr Brendan Wallace and Dr Alastair Ross and Dr John Davies}, editor = {Professor Erik Hollnagel and Professor Pietro Carlo Cacciabue}, title = {The Creation of a New Minor Event Coding Scheme}, publisher = {Springer Verlag}, year = {2002}, journal = {Cognition Technology and Work}, pages = {1--8}, keywords = {Human Error, cognition, safety, minor event coding scheme, nuclear industry}, url = {http://cogprints.org/4576/}, abstract = {Abstract: The present study began with an assessment of the reliability and usefulness of an existing minor event coding system in a British ?highconsequence? industry. It was discovered that despite the fact that the system produced replicable data, when tested in a reliability trial the causal inferences it was producing failed to meet the normal criteria for statistical reliability. It was therefore felt necessary to create a new model of the human factors component of action in this industry, from which a model of human factors error in the same industry could be inferred. A set of codes (to facilitate statistical analysis) were deduced from this last, which were then tested in a new reliability trial. The results from this trial were very encouraging, and after a six-month pilot study in which it demonstrated its usefulness as a trend and patterning tool, the system is now being phased in within} }