Is Oversight Commonly Occur?

INTRODUCTION
What is Oversight?
Oversight as defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “an unintentional failure to do or notice something” (Oxford Dictionary). Due to largely unforeseeable, unintentional errors, they are common in peoples daily lives.
Where/how Does Oversight Commonly Occur?
As the definition mentions, oversight is unforeseeable so it is a very common occurrence so it can happen in various places ranging from households to businesses. In a household, if a son/daughter forgets to get a carton of milk but gets everything else, it is an oversight. In a business, if a CEO forgets to sign a document it is an oversight. In a school, if a teacher forgets to correct one student’s paper, it is an oversight. Thus we can say oversight is

never intentional.
The main reason why oversight happens is human carelessness, everyone makes mistakes and this is the reason why oversight happens. Only a perfect human would be able to say that he does not make mistakes, and since there is no such perfect human, everyone makes the mistake of oversight.

FAMOUS CASES OF OVERSIGHT
Standard Chartered Bank and Money Laundering
The United Kingdom branch of Standard Chartered bank in the year 2012 was hit with a 300 million dollar fine because of a mistake of oversight.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion took place in the year 1961 when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America (USA) invaded Cuba in order to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro. The United States devised a plan to train soldiers who would invade Cuba and overthrow the Castro regime. This plan was approved by both President Eisenhower and President John F Kennedy in their respective terms; the final operation took place while Kennedy was in office.
The invasion began on April 15th 1961, when Eight B-29 which were planes from the US Air Force disguised as Cuban Airplanes attacked planes at Cuban bases and after landed back in Miami to look like they were defecting planes. But as they landed at the airport, reporters assumed that these accusations were false as there were no retaliation shot marks on the planes and no shots were fired by the on board machine gun.
On April 18th the United States attempted to attack Cuba once again, this time sending U.S Fighter jets in order to back up invading B-26 bombers. The back up jets missed their rendezvous points by an hour as the CIA never took into account the time difference between the United States and Cuba. This mistake cost the United States the entire Bay of Pigs

invasion.

CONCLUSION
The Bay of Pigs is considered one of the biggest examples of oversight as the United States of America lost the invasion of Cuba because of unnoticed mistakes. For example,
the mistake of not taking into account the change in time zones. This was an unnoticed mistake
thus it can be called an oversight by the United States Government.
We can conclude that oversight is ever-present, and always results in high consequences. The one way to avoid oversight is to be always careful and plan everything in advance, so that there are no oversights when the plan is in action.

References
Gilman, L. (n.d.). Bay of Pigs. Retrieved September 18, 2015, from
http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Ba-Bl/Bay-of-Pigs.html

Definition of oversight in English:. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2015, from
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/oversig