human error
action with unintended consequences, that is often the primary cause or contributing factor in disasters and accidents
escalation of commitment
human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continues the behavior instead of altering course
latent human error
flaw in a safety-critical system or process that increases the risk of human errors
medical error
preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether evident or harmful to the patient or not
user error
A user error is an error made by the human user of a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it; sometimes used jokingly
clerical error
mistake in clerical work, e.g. data entry