[EAS] perhaps an RFP for alarm clocks?

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018, Barry Mishkind wrote:
> Some more news about the HI false alarm:
>
> http://www.kitv.com/story/38526068/hawaii-emergency-agency-staff-allegedly-seen-sleeping

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/04/air_force_s_nuclear_missile_corps_is_struggling_millennial_missileers_suffer.html

"But their day-to-day enemy, for decades, has not so much been another 
superpower, but the unremitting boredom of an isolated posting that 
demands extreme vigilance, while also requiring virtually no activity, 
according to accounts by missileers and a new internal review of their 
work."

[...]

"The millennials who populate this force can watch television, read, 
study, or sleep in their cramped, often damp quarters. But their 
checklist routines are typically unvarying, and their 
moment-to-moment responsibilities are few, and the temperature 
underground--like the policy requiring their presence--is unnervingly 
stuck in the mid-60s."

[...]

"In taking a wider view of the test cheating problem, Holmes wrote that he 
was following the "Reason Model of Human Error." That's a slightly garbled 
name for the theory propounded in 1990 by University of Manchester social 
psychologist James T. Reason that complex systems--particularly those with 
highly perfected mechanical devices at their heart--can fail, sometimes 
catastrophically, due to mistakes made by the executives who create and 
manage them."

"Reason's insights from studying air traffic controllers, hospitals, and 
nuclear power plants prompted him to be hired by railways and airlines in 
an effort to anticipate when poor supervisory practices--including 
excessive corner-cutting, undue budget reductions, and the setting of 
unrealistic performance expectations--might culminate in unsafe acts. One 
of his most famous presentations included a series of Swiss cheese slices, 
representing checks and safeguards, with the holes unexpectedly lined up 
so that a catastrophe could still occur."

[...]