Teaming up: components of safety under high risk

All accidents and incidents at the workplace, and the resulting consequences, are tied to human beings and their actions.

Although their avoidance has been a crucial part of training in aviation for the past twenty years, it has been largely ignored in many other occupations with team structures similar to those in aviation.

In such professions and workplaces, those involved are under high stress, with enormous workloads, simultaneously completing mental and motor tasks, facing unexpected situations involving great risk, and with uncertain final outcomes.