Sleep, Lapses and Mistake

Slips, lapses and mistakes
Slips can be thought of as actions not carried out as intended or planned, e.g. ‘transposing digits when copying out numbers, or misordering steps in a procedure.
Lapses are missed actions and omissions, i.e. when somebody has failed to do something due to lapses of memory and/or attention or because they have forgotten something, e.g. forgetting to replace an engine cowling.
  Mistakes are a specific type of error brought about by a faulty plan/intention, i.e. somebody did something believing it to be correct when it was, in fact, wrong, e.g. an error of judgement such as mis-selection of bolts when fitting an aircraft windscreen.
        Violations sometimes appear to be human errors, but they differ from slips, lapses and mistakes because they are deliberate ‘illegal’ actions,

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