New Arctic Air Crash Aftermath Role-Play Simulation™: Orchestrating a Fundamental Surprise
We describe an aviation scenario-based role-play simulation used to teach healthcare practitioners about barriers to learning from accidents. Participants searched for the causes of the crash in a scenario that encouraged a “garden path” explanation that the root cause was a risky decision to take o...
Published in: | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2001
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120104500422 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/154193120104500422 |
Summary: | We describe an aviation scenario-based role-play simulation used to teach healthcare practitioners about barriers to learning from accidents. Participants searched for the causes of the crash in a scenario that encouraged a “garden path” explanation that the root cause was a risky decision to take off despite visible ice on the wings. During a debriefing session, the actual structure of how the system failed is revealed, including over 100 active and latent contributors to the failure with a multitude of potential lessons to improve safety. The dissonance between lessons learned during the role-play and the potential lessons creates a “fundamental surprise” situation that allows oversimplified assumptions of how complex systems fail to be challenged. |
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