Guide to Applying Human Factors Methods: Human Error and Accident Management in Safety-Critical Systems

✍ Scribed by Pietro Carlo Cacciabue PhD (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 353
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Human error plays a significant role in many accidents involving safety-critical systems, and it is now a standard requirement in both the US and Europe for Human Factors (HF) to be taken into account in system design and safety assessment. This book will be an essential guide for anyone who uses HF in their everyday work, providing them with consistent and ready-to-use procedures and methods that can be applied to real-life problems. The first part of the book looks at the theoretical framework, methods and techniques that the engineer or safety analyst needs to use when working on a HF-related project. The second part presents four case studies that show the reader how the above framework and guidelines work in practice. The case studies are based on real-life projects carried out by the author for a major European railway system, and in collaboration with international companies such as the International Civil Aviation Organisation, Volvo, Daimler-Chrysler and FIAT.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Elements of Human-Machine Systems....Pages 9-47
Theories and Methods for Human-Machine Systems....Pages 48-104
Guidelines for the Application of HF Methods in HMS....Pages 105-146
Application of HERMES for the Design of HMI Systems: Anticollision Warning in Automotive Environments....Pages 147-189
Application of HERMES in Training: A Human Factors Course in the Aviation Domain....Pages 190-229
Application of HERMES for Safety Assessment: The Safety Audit of a Large Railway Organisation....Pages 230-292
Application of HERMES for Accident Investigation: The Case of a Thermoelectric Power Plant....Pages 293-331
Back Matter....Pages 332-347

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; System Performance and Evaluation; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

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