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		<title>Sleeping on the Job</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2011/03/27/sleeping-on-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An air traffic controller fell asleep during the fourth night shift in a row.Â Â Â  The papers said he was working alone andÂ  working from 10pm to 6am.Â Â  I know the difficulties of staying awake during those hours.Â  Now he is suspended for sleeping on the job.Â  Others will also face criticism and discipline for doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Sleep Awareness Week March 7-13</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2011/03/07/national-sleep-awareness-week-march-7-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s National Sleep Awareness Week.Â  Are you aware of your need for sleep?Â  There&#8217;s a difference between awareness and action.Â  According to an article in today&#8217;s Marietta Daily Journal, more than a third of American adults sleep less than seven hours a night.Â  Many of them report troubles concentrating, remembering, and driving.Â  The Centers for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Errors by Air Traffic Controllers May Have Doubled</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2011/02/20/errors-by-air-traffic-controllers-may-have-doubled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Control Room Management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Google Alert about human error caught my attention, since I am flying around the USA in early 2011.Â  It made me wonder about other control rooms and controllers, like pipeline controllers.Â  The number of operating errors in a twelve month period that ended September 30, 2010 was 1889 compared to 947 in the preceding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complicated Technology, Human Error, Lax Oversight</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/06/24/complicated-technology-human-error-lax-oversight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Wall Street Journal (June 16, 2010) an article about past disaster panel members contains something that people in hazardous industries should already know.Â  But we forget.Â  The panelists believe the Deepwater Horizon panel will find these causes:&#8220;an over-reliance on complicated technology that fails, human error, and lax oversight by regulators.&#8221; Those are similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Call or Not to Call; To Facebook or Not &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/24/to-call-or-not-to-call-to-facebook-or-not-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach 11th graders in Sunday School and have been teaching youth for over 30 years.  in the early years of teaching, I contacted the youth by mail or on their home phone or even visited their homes.  Mail still works, even though it is a quaint practice.  When I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Off &#8220;Most Wanted&#8221; List: Relief for PHMSA</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/24/getting-off-most-wanted-list-relief-for-phmsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that it had removed an item from its &#8220;Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements&#8221; list.  For a number of years, &#8220;Reduce Pipeline Accidents Caused by Human Fatigue&#8221; had been on the list.  The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has been working with the pipeline industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inukshuk: Substitute for a Person</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/inukshuk-substitute-for-a-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall St. Journal has an article about the 2010 Olympic symbol and logo, the inukshuk. This stone sculpture(or pile of rocks) and its many derivations are present at all venues and scattered all around the country.
The original purpose of the inukshuk was to mark the location of food caches, the direction of an important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Error &#8211; Excuse or Reason?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/human-error-excuse-or-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/human-error-excuse-or-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever used the &#8220;Google Alert&#8221; service to receive an alert about some subject?Â  Each week, I receive a message that contains links to news when &#8220;human error&#8221; is mentioned.Â Â  It is mentioned very often to explain causes of deaths, disasters, accidents, near misses, surprise lottery winners, and other items.Â  When the luge athlete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grumpy People, Good Performers?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/grumpy-people-good-performers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do grumpy people work with you?  Are you grumpy?  Through the years, I have worked with lots of grumpy construction workers, pipeline operators, controllers, technicians, engineers, managers, regulators, IT workers, executives.  Occasionally I have embarked on campaigns to reduce grumpiness at locations where I worked or managed.   I know of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Suffering from Vagueness&#8221; &#8211; A Problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/17/suffering-from-vagueness-a-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 59-year old woman said she was &#8220;suffering from vagueness&#8221; when it came to controlling her compulsive shopping and spending.Â  Her statement was in an Atlanta Journal &#8211; Constitution article.Â  From years of Latin study(really), I know the root word for vagueness is vagus.Â  The original meaning is &#8220;wander, move around, unsettled.&#8221;Â Â  People have a [...]]]></description>
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