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Safety science

the slow, incremental movement of a complex system toward failure through locally sensible decisions under pressure.

In safety science, drift into failure refers to the slow, incremental movement of a complex system toward failure through locally sensible decisions under pressure. This meaning comes from Dekker (2010) in Drift into failure.[1]

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References

Dekker, S. (2010). Drift into failure. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9781351942904

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