Skill Equals Competence Plus Experience

Autor: Patrick T. W. Hudson, Timothy Gordon Logan Hudson
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Day 2 Tue, July 28, 2020.
DOI: 10.2118/199446-ms
Popis: Skill = Competence + Experience The paper discusses the development of skill in the management of risk and discusses challenges posed in the lower probability margins of the risk space within which operations are conducted. In hindsight failures of competence are often framed in terms of a lack of experience but this cannot always be delivered by competence training. In hazardous industries there is a requirement for skilled individuals who can manage dangerous operations either on their own or in small teams. The requirement for minimum levels of skill in increasingly complex environments has been met by setting requirements for competence, often embedded in a Skills Management System. While the level of competence acquired after initial training, and with recurrent training, is generally sufficient to ensure procedures are applied on a daily basis, situations may still arise when individuals are called to perform beyond the minimum. In aviation there are often calls for pilots with greater experience when things have gone wrong, but hours flown may not deliver the necessary skill. In the Deepwater Horizon disaster apparently competent individuals on and off the rig also nevertheless appeared to lack the necessary experience when faced with anomalous information. This paper considers the need to go beyond the minimum in training to acquire experience without having to undergo dangerous situations that are outside the scenarios used for competence acquisition - ‘squeaky bottom moments’. Using the notion of a ‘possibility space’ we consider that most scenarios used in training cover all the simple and most of the more complex possible accidents, but do not cover the many remaining scenarios. Success in training and safety management has resulted in good safety performance but leaves behind the residual weird (Wildly Erratic Incident Resulting in Disaster) incidents for which experience is essential to avoid bad outcomes and which us away from still achieving zero harm. The paper discusses how experience and competence combine as skill.
Databáze: OpenAIRE