Employee's task load and income: Associations with safety events attributed to human error

RESEARCH MOTIVATION & OBJECTIVES • Rasmussen (1997): economy, workload, and safety constitute the principal constraints of complex systems • Brubaker & Probst (2001): the majority of the literature addresses safety-related factors linked to ergonomic conditions and organizational and individual characteristics • There had not been sufficient research on the relationship between wage fluctuations and human error rates in conjunction with task load variances • Data from an aviation organization to explore the association between rates of accidents attributed to human error and fluctuations of employment expenditures and task loa