“…Past research has linked individual-level mindfulness to error outcomes through an error prevention lens, arguing that it might mitigate human error through enhanced external attentional control and focus (e.g., Dane, 2011; Dierynck et al, 2017; Mrazek et al, 2013). Similarly, safety research has established links between individual mindfulness and safety behavior (Feldman et al, 2011; Kao et al, 2021; Kiken & Shook, 2011); and safety performance in HROs (Ji et al, 2018; Solomon & Esmaeili, 2021; Zhang et al, 2013; Zhang & Wu, 2014). By highlighting that being true to oneself—and in particular, relating to oneself with acceptance as the qualitative inquiry revealed—decreases the pressure to hide errors, we extend past theorizing that links the attentional features of mindfulness to safety and error outcomes, and suggest that mindfulness can also be used to interpret and regulate the error management response more adaptively.…”