Incidents and critical incidents

Learning from critical incidents

Ian Clarke is a consultant in general adult psychiatry in the west of Glasgow (Arndale Resource Centre, 80–90 Kinfauns Drive, Drumchapel, Glasgow, G15 7TS, UK. Email: [email protected]). He is clinical lead for the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Patient Safety Group. He obtained a Masters in Business Administration in 2004 and is lead clinician for the west of Glasgow. Critical incidents in...

Critical incidents and adverse events in healthcare

Critical incidents and critical threads in empirical usability evaluation

Empirical usability evaluations (particularly “formative” evaluations, Scriven, 1967) hinge on observing and interpreting critical incidents (Flanagan, 1954) of use: the causes of such critical incidents can often be found in the immediate contexts of their occurrence and can guide specific design changes. However, it can also happen that the causes of a critical incident are temporally remote ...

Nursing care in disasters and incidents

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A Survey of SCADA and Critical Infrastructure Incidents

In this paper, we analyze several cyber-security incidents involving critical infrastructure and SCADA systems. We classify these incidents based on Source Sector, Method of Operations, Impact, and Target Sector. Using this standardized taxonomy we can easily compare and contrast current and future SCADA incidents.